Albert Einstein acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901, which he kept for the rest of his life. In 1905, he was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich. The same year, he published four groundbreaking papers during his renowned "annus mirabilis" (miracle year) which brought him to the notice of the academic world at the age of 26. Einstein taught theoretical physics at Zurich between 1912 and 1914 before he left for Berlin, where he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1933, while Einstein was visiting the United States, Adolf Hitler came to power. Because of his Jewish background,
Albert Rose (physicist) Albert Rose (physicist) Albert Rose (30 March 1910 – 26 July 1990) was an American physicist, who made major contributions to TV video camera tubes such as the orthicon, image orthicon, and vidicon. He received an A.B. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Cornell University in 1931 and 1935, respectively. He joined RCA, where was active in the development of TV camera tubes. Rose was an expert on photoconductivity. He wrote a book "Concepts in photoconductivity and allied problems", which was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York in 1963. He also did research on the visibility