Albert Einstein is justly famous for devising his theory of relativity, ... Again, Einstein didn’t invent solar cells; the first crude versions of them date back to 1839.

On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and destructive, inventions – the atomic bomb.

This year marks 120 years since Albert Einstein’s 'miracle year' in 1905, when he published many of his groundbreaking discoveries that revolutionised modern physics, including his famous equation, ...

Jacques Hadamard sought to understand how mathematicians generate new ideas. In The Psychology of Invention in the ...

Assessing new inventions at the Swiss capital’s patent office, ... (Image: Portrait of German-born physicist Albert Einstein on his 75th birthday. Photo by American Stock/Getty Images) ...