The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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Einstein
2017
Season one charts how Albert Einstein—an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Based on Walter Isaacson’s critically acclaimed book “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
01. Chapter One
2017-04-25
The story of Albert Einstein, seen through glimpses of his twilight years and flashbacks to his time as a student in Munich and Zürich in the 1890s.
02. Chapter Two
2017-05-02
After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
03. Chapter Three
2017-05-09
Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
04. Chapter Four
2017-05-16
Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
05. Chapter Five
2017-05-23
Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
06. Chapter Six
2017-05-30
Einstein moves his family for work, and to be closer to his new love, Elsa. He sets out to prove his theory as his marriage reaches a breaking point.
07. Chapter Seven
2017-06-06
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
08. Chapter Eight
2017-06-13
Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
09. Chapter Nine
2017-06-20
Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
10. Chapter Ten
2017-06-27
After the atomic bomb is dropped and World War II draws to a close, Einstein assumes the role of world citizen in his twilight years.
