Albert Einstein Net Worth

Publish date: 2024-08-30

Albert Einstein net worth is
$1 Million

Albert Einstein Wiki Biography

Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879, in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany, of Jewish descent. Albert is one of the most well-known scientists in history, particularly revered for his work on the formula E=mc2 which is for mass-energy equivalence. He also developed the theory of relativity which has been responsible for multiple break-throughs in physics. Aside from these, Albert was one of the main reasons for the start the Manhattan Project as a response from the World War 2 Allies to creating new and powerful bombs. His efforts helped raise his net worth in his life.

How rich was Albert Einstein? As of early-2016, sources estimate that his net worth was at $1 million mostly earned through the success he had working on his passion for science. Albert was a Nobel Prize winner and published more than 300 papers on his scientific work, not including his non-scientific work that amounts to 150 papers. His continued pursuit of knowledge ensured his wealth.

Albert Einstein Net Worth $1 Million

After his father’s company failed to make a profit, Albert and the family moved to Milan and then Pavia, Italy. By 1895, he took exams for entry into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic but since he failed the standards (except for physics and math), he was sent to Argovian cantonal school. At the age of 17, Einstein enrolled in a math and physics teaching program which he completed by 1900; meantime, he had also renounced his German citizenship to avoid being part of the German army. After graduating, Albert couldn’t find a teaching post, and instead got a job in a patent office in Bern. During his time there, he examined a variety of patents that focused on electrical and mechanical machines, which helped fuel his thoughts on science and philosophy. Around this period, Einstein was also becoming known in academia thanks to his published works, and in 1905 he was awarded his PhD by the University of Zurich thanks to his thesis entitled “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions”.

He continued his work, publishing papers on various scientific topics which brought him to prominence when 26 years old. By 1911, Einstein had become a full professor and also obtained Austrian citizenship. He continued to teach and publish, eventually returning to Germany to be part and head of many physics and science institutions in the country. He worked on a new theory of relativity that was proven in 1919 and would later earn him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The following years Einstein would travel the world, visiting the US, then London, Singapore, Japan, and Palestine. writing about most of the places he visited and how the people were in each country. He returned to the US in 1930 to be greeted by crowds, events and high profile names in the country. This also led to Einstein befriending Charlie Chaplin, plus Upton Sinclair, and a few other politicians and celebrities. By 1933, on a visit once again to the United States, he knew that he could not return to Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler to power. Because of this, he renounced his German citizenship which he had re-adopted in 1914, and became a refugee in the United States, eventually becoming a US citizen in 1940. He continued his work, and despite disapproving the development of nuclear weapons, he refuted any violence and became outspoken about his pacifism.

In his personal life, Einstein was married to Mileva Maric and they had a daughter before their marriage, though information about what happened to their child is shrouded in mystery. Their marriage happened in 1903 and they then had two sons, but eventually separated and divorced by 1919. He then married Elsa Lowenthal in the same year, and was married to her until her death in 1936. During 1955, Einstein was sent to Princeton Hospital due to internal bleeding caused by a rupture of an aneurysm. He decided that artificially prolonging his life was no longer necessary and he refused surgery. He died at the age of 76 years old and while his remains were cremated, the pathologist took Einstein’s brain to be preserved and studied by future generations.


Full NameAlbert Einstein
Net Worth$1 Million
Date Of BirthMarch 14, 1879
Died1955-04-18, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Place Of BirthUlm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Height5' 9" (1.75 m)
ProfessionTheoretical Physicist, professor, director
EducationETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Polytechnic)
NationalityGerman- American
SpouseElsa Löwenthal (m. 1919–1936), Mileva Maric (m. 1903–1919)
ChildrenEduard Einstein, Lieserl Einstein, Hans Albert Einstein
ParentsHermann Einstein, Pauline Einstein, Fanny Koch, Rudolf Einstein, Samuel Michelson, Rozalia Michelson
SiblingsMaja Einstein, Hermine Einstein, Paula Einstein
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/AlbertEinstein
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/AlbertEinstein
IMDBhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251868
AwardsBarnard Medal (1920), Nobel Prize in Physics (1921), Matteucci Medal (1921), ForMemRS (1921), Copley Medal (1925), Max Planck Medal (1929), Time Person of the Century (1999)
#Trademark
1An unkempt hairstyle
2Long grey hair and moustache
#Quote
1If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
2[in 1932] There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
3Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
4Before God, we are equally wise--equally foolish.
5The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility.
6If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
7The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
8Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
9An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
10If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
11There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
12I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
13Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
14Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
15Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
16The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
17Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
18The important thing is not to stop questioning.
19I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
20Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
21[Referring to Mohandas K. Gandhi after Gandhi's assassination] Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth!
22[Upon learning of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima] If I had only known, I would have been a watchmaker!
23Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
24A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
25in "Life" magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
26by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985] I made one great mistake in my life--when I signed the letter to [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification: the danger that the Germans would make them.
27When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
28I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
29I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
30Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
31As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However while working in the customs office I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as a substitute.
32There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
33The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
34Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
35The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
36If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
37The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
38I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
39Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
40I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.
41The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
42[giving the most practical, understandable explanation of the Theory of Relativity; how time can expand or contract] You spend 30 minutes with a beautiful girl, it seems like a moment. You spend a moment sitting on a hot stove, it seems like 30 minutes.
#Fact
1Producer Julian Blaustein cast Sam Jaffee as Professor Barnhardt in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) because of his resemblance to Albert Einstein who, at that time, was the most recognized scientist in the world. For years afterward, Blaustein, and director Robert Wise, would refer to Professor Barnhardt as the "Einstein character.".
2Doc Brown, the eccentric inventor from the Back to the Future trilogy has a pet dog named after Einstein.
3He has an Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number of 11, which ties him with Natalie Portman and Adam Savage, and is among the lowest on the planet.
4He did not want his body or brain to studied or worshipped, he left specific instructions upon his death, he was to be cremated and the ashes to be scattered in secret.
5He is a a fifth cousin, three times removed, of actor and director Peter Berg. Albert's paternal four times great-grandfather, Moyses Einstein, was also Peter's maternal seven times great-grandfather.
6Was an inventor and called mad in his time even though he's thought of now as one of the greatest scientific minds who ever lived.
7Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2015 (inaugural class) in the category Historical Figure.
8Devised the theory of relativity.
9Mentioned in the song "Einstein A Go-Go" by "Landscape".
10When told of a book entitled "One Hundred Authors against Einstein", he replied "Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.".
11Steve Martin once wrote a stage play about a hypothetical meeting between Einstein and Picasso.
12Said to have had parietal lobes 10% larger than would be expected for an average brain.
13Considered himself as a loner and had very few friends during his lifetime.
14Wrote a letter in support of the Scottsboro Nine, a group of young African-American men in Alabama who got convicted of assault and rape in what was widely seen as an unfair trial. H.G. Wells and Thomas Mann also wrote letters in support of the young men.
15Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld co-wrote a book, of physics, titled The Evolution of Physics.
16Walter Matthau played Einstein in the film I.Q. (1994) even though he was a half-foot taller than the famous scientist.
17Was a Vegetarian.
18His IQ has been estimated as falling in between 160 and 180, which would signify genius intelligence. Einstein himself never took an IQ test.
19E=MC² was also used in the opening sequence for The Twilight Zone (1959) with the caption, "A dimension of mind.".
20In 2000, DC Comics artist Ed McGuiness often used Einstein's formula as his signature, after illustrating a full issue of "Superman: The Man of Steel".
21Elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2007 for his services to science and history (inaugural election). Official induction ceremonies held in May 2008.
22Is reported to have kept several sets of the same outfit in his closet so that he could simply grab an outfit without having to think about what he wanted to wear. This quirk was later given to two characters played by Jeff Goldblum: Seth Brundle in The Fly (1986) and Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park (1993). The same quirk was parodied by Jim Varney's alter ego, Ernest, in a series of films.
23Had Asperger Syndrome but wasn't diagnosed until it was discovered by Dr Hans Asperger in the late 1940s.
24E=mc2 is Einstein's most famous equation, and it establishes a correlation between mass and energy (c is the speed of light) for the first time -- later practically exemplified in the splitting of the atom and the inauguration of the exploration of atomic (nuclear) energy.
25Shares a birthday with Taylor Hanson, Kylie Tyndall, Keaton Tyndall, Quincy Jones, Chris Klein, & Michael Caine
26Cared little for money. He once used a $1500.00 check as a bookmark and then lost the book.
27He had two daughters with his second wife, Ilsa and Margot. He adopted them upon his marriage when they were both around twenty years old.
28His son Eduard suffered from a severe form of depression.
29His wife gave birth to their daughter, Lieserl, in 1902, a year before they married. They never spoke about her after 1903. It is assumed that she was adopted by a friend or family member. Some speculate that she died in 1903 from scarlet fever. Einstein never saw her.
30Philip Glass created an "opera" in 1976 called "Einstein on the Beach", inspired in part by Einstein's theories.
31Referenced in the song 'The Call of the Wild (Merengue)' by David Byrne on his 1989 album, "Rei Momo".
32After his death, his brain was weighed and found to be 1.5 kg (2.64 lb). It is now preserved in a glass jar in Wichita, KS.
33After his death, scientists kept his brain preserved and discovered a physical abnormality. His brain is still preserved in laboratories.
34Said to be a HUGE fan of the legendary Robert Clampett cartoon series, Time for Beany (1949). It is also believed that he once ended a meeting with scientists by saying, "Pardon me, gentlemen, but it's Time for Beany!".
35An element, Einsteinium, is named after him.
36Pictured on a 15¢ US commemorative postage stamp celebrating the centennial of his birth, issued 4 March 1979.
37Pictured on the 8¢ US postage stamp in the original issue of the Prominent Americans series, issued 14 March 1966.
38Became a US citizen in 1940, but retained his Swiss citizenship.
39His second wife was also his cousin.
40Children with Maric: Lieserl (born January, 1902), Hans Albert (born May 14, 1904), Eduard (born c. 1908).
41Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 (for his discovery of the Photoelectric Effect).
42Was reluctant to sign autographs, and charged people a dollar before signing anything. He gave the dollars he received to charity.
43Made a telephone call to comedian Sid Caesar, suggesting they meet to discuss the human condition. Unfortunately, the meeting never took place because Caesar thought they would have nothing to talk about.
44Never learned how to drive a car.
45When he left Germany in 1933, the Nazis put a price of 20,000 marks on his head.
46Named Time magazine's Person of the Century. [December 1999]
47He was offered the Presidency of Israel but declined, having no political or ceremonial ambitions.

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Artists of the Roundtable2008Video documentary special thanks

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