The People

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, 1921
Born	14 March 1879(1879-03-14) Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died	18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Residence	Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Citizenship	Württemberg/Germany (1879–96) Switzerland (1901–55) Austria (1911–12) Germany (1914–33) United States (1940–55)
Ethnicity	Ashkenazi Jewish
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Swiss Patent Office (Berne) University of Zurich German Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, Prague ETH Zurich Prussian Academy of Sciences Kaiser Wilhelm Institute University of Leiden Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	ETH Zurich University of Zurich
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Kleiner
Other academic advisors	Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Notable students	Ernst G. Straus
Known for	General relativity Special relativity Photoelectric effect Brownian motion Mass-energy equivalence Einstein field equations Unified Field Theory Bose–Einstein statistics
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Copley Medal (1925) Max Planck Medal (1929) Person of the Century
Religious stance	See main text
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), "the father of the atomic bomb", worked on the first nuclear weapons before becoming a government advisor.
Born	April 22, 1904 New York, New York, U.S.
Died	February 18, 1967 (aged 62) Princeton, New Jersey
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Ashkenazi Jewish
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Manhattan Project University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Cambridge University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor	Max Born
Doctoral students	Willis Lamb David Bohm Robert Christy Melba Phillips Philip Morrison Siegfried Wouthuysen
Other notable students	Julian Schwinger Stan Frankel Samuel W. Alderson
Known for	Atomic bomb development Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit Oppenheimer-Phillips process
Notable awards	Enrico Fermi Award
Notes Brother of physicist Frank Oppenheimer