Albert Einstein & Jean-Paul Sartre

Did Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre live at the same time?

Yes. Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre lived at the same time for 50 years, from 1905 to 1955.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Albert Einstein · Jean-Paul Sartre · Born in 1879 · Born in 1905

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Science & Invention

Theory of relativity, E=mc²

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy & Thought

Existentialism, declined the Nobel Prize

18791980

Albert Einstein

Jean-Paul Sartre

Albert Einstein

Science & Invention

Born in Ulm

Died in Princeton

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy & Thought

Born in Paris

Died in 14th arrondissement of Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Sources

Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
Albert Einstein (Q937) — Wikidata
Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
Jean-Paul Sartre (Q9364) — Wikidata