Albert Einstein
If ever there was a man who could unravel the ultimate mysteries of the universe, it would be Albert Einstein. Born on the 14th of March 1879 in Württemberg, Germany, Albert Einstein was raised by parents who didn't listen to the elementary school headmaster's prediction that Albert will never be successful. Typical of geniuses, he was rebellious and didn't care much about conventional wisdom. But his father gave him a compass at the age of five. This was the most moment that propelled Einstein towards science.
His fascination with the concept of magnetism led to a rigorous study of physics and the formulation of the famous theory of relativity. This theory, Einstein created a mass-energy equivalence; specifically, energy is equal to the product of mass and the square of the speed of light. Albert Einstein also discovered the law of photoelectric effect, which earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. His other scientific works include the explanation of capillarity, a quantum theory of atomic motion, and the creation of the concept of zero-point energy. This is the energy of a physical system that is in ground state.
Then, in an attempt to combine the principles of electromagnetism and the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein began formulating the unified field theory. He died (April 18, 1955) before this theory was completed. Since then, scientists have been scrambling to complete this unified field theory. Some even wanted to transform it into a "theory of everything," a theory that will explain practically all phenomena of the universe and conveniently incorporates the known (and perhaps still unknown) physical constants.