Albert was born in 1879 in Ulm,Germany. He graduated from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 1905. In also did some of his most famous work in physics. In 1919, he won the nobel Prize for physics. Between 191 and 1933,he lived in Germany and traveled a lot to talk to other scientists. Then in 1933, he had to leave Germany because of Hitler and the Nazi Party. He moved to United States. From 1933 until his death,he lived in Princeton,New Jersey. He died on April 18,1995.