With a focus on unified field theory during his later years, Einstein has died at the university medical center early the next morning, April 18, 1955, at the age of 76. The nurse on duty at the Princeton Hospital did not speak German, and the meaning of Einstein’s final words was lost forever.

Albert Einstein has died in hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 76. The eminent scientist and originator of the theory of relativity was admitted to hospital three days ago with an internal complaint.

Albert Einstein died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton, he refused treatment, arguing that he wanted to end his life "elegantly." His death occurred on April 18, 1955.

When Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure at age 76, his funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse.

Albert Einstein. Half a century after his death, the man's very name has become virtually synonymous with "genius." Einstein's portrait has become an iconic image—usually rendered with wild flyaway hair and often with his tongue sticking out rakishly—used to provide brainy chic to everything from t-shirts to bumper stickers to beer steins. (Einstein...

Strangely, though many scholars eagerly investigate every facet of Einstein’s life, few or none have analyzed the cause of his death. Einstein’s brain before dissection in 1955 (via Discover ). The type of aneurysm that Einstein had is statistically linked with being old and male.

Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. The previous day, while working on a speech to honor Israel's seventh anniversary, Einstein suffered an...

Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Though Einstein didn’t believe in individual survival of physical death, he may have been surprised on his demise. Conservation of energy is basic to physics. So Einstein must have realized that his subtle energetic essence was indestructible and could only be transformed from one state to another.