Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his discovery of the Photoelectric Effect. In 1933 he immigrated to the U.S and took a position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University.

Einstein’s long list of career achievements include work on General and Special Relativity, Photons, light-wave laws that would lead to the development of laser technology, and other advanced work in Theoretical Physics. He was the first scientist to advance Newton’s laws of gravitation which had been universally accepted as the basis for Physics for over 200 hundred years.

However, he was also an inventor. In 1930 he was issued a patent from the United States Patent Office for his collaboration with Leo Szilard on the “Einstein” refrigerator. The patent was later bought by a prominent refrigerating company to protect their product from competition. In 1936 he was issued a patent from the United States Patent Office for his collaboration with Gustav Bucky on the Light Intensity Self-Adjusting Camera. This a novel design and one of the first camera designs that included an auto-exposure feature.