Albert Einstein is probably the most famous alumnus of ETH Zurich. Between 1896 and 1900 he studied at the Polytechnikum, as ETH Zurich was then called, and graduated with a diploma as a specialist ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

ETH Zurich (1855): A cornerstone of scientific education, ETH Zurich counts Albert Einstein among its notable alumni and faculty. Interestingly, Einstein initially failed his entrance exam but ...

The truth is that in the math and physics sections of the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic (ETH Zurich) in 1896, Albert Einstein scored exceptionally well, outperforming most applicants ...

A new essay brings us into a space of looking at what the top human minds have accomplished over the centuries, and why.

The rarely observed rings are named for mathematician and physicist Albert Einstein. His general theory of relativity predicted that light could bend and brighten around objects across the cosmos.

Despite its name, this mathematical question has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein. It asks: Can you seamlessly tile an endless surface with a single shape (an "einstein ...

More than a century ago, Albert Einstein predicted that massive objects like large galaxies and clusters of galaxies act like giant lenses in space by bending light from distant objects.