Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent Jewish family in ...

Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century. His theories solved centuries-old problems in physics and rocked even non-physicists' view of the world.

As longtime Waukegan resident Karen Glinert Carlson, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, told how a cousin — Albert Einstein — helped save her family, she paused for a moment to ...