Albert Einstein Computer artwork of Albert Einsteins head and his famous equation Emc meaning Energymass x velocity of light squared Einstein was one of the greatest theoretical physicists in history In he published papers that led to his Nobel Prize calculations on Brownian motion the photoelectric effect and Special Relativity In he published his Theory of General Relativity explaining gravity as a distortion of spacetime by a mass In he moved to the USA and worked on the Manhattan Project to design a nuclear bomb during World War After this he became a prominent voice for nuclear disarmament