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American relativity theorists

  • Albert EinsteinOn the 14th of March 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm within the Kingdom of Württemberg. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
  • J. Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904, in New York City to Ella Friedman and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer.
  • Enrico FermiEnrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy, on the 29th of September 1901. He grew up at Via Gaeta 19 with his parents Alberto and Ida de Gattis.
  • John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on the 9th of July 1911. He grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, but spent a year from 1921 to 1922 on a…
  • Gilbert N. LewisG. N. Lewis was born in 1875 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where a street now bears his name as G.N. Lewis Way off Summer Street.
  • Peter BergmannPeter Gabriel Bergmann was born on the 24th of March 1915 into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father Max worked as a biochemist and later became a professor…
  • Kurt GödelKurt Friedrich Gödel was born on the 28th of April 1906 in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. He entered a world where his father Rudolf managed a major textile firm…
  • Lee SmolinLee Smolin was born on the 6th of June 1955 in New York City. His father Michael worked as an environmental and process engineer while his mother Pauline…