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Season 1

Einstein

Einstein

Season 1

Einstein

  • Air date:2017-04-25
  • User score:
    7.5
  • Number of episodes:10
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.”

List of Episodes

Chapter One
S1E1
7.6

Air date: 2017-04-25

Runtime: 65 min

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.

Chapter Two
S1E2
7.7

Air date: 2017-05-02

Runtime: 51 min

After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.

Chapter Three
S1E3
7.4

Air date: 2017-05-09

Runtime: 51 min

Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.

Chapter Four
S1E4
7.5

Air date: 2017-05-16

Runtime: 51 min

Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.

Chapter Five
S1E5
7.2

Air date: 2017-05-23

Runtime: 51 min

Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.

Chapter Six
S1E6
7.2

Air date: 2017-05-30

Runtime: 51 min

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.

Chapter Seven
S1E7
6.8

Air date: 2017-06-06

Runtime: 51 min

In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.

Chapter Eight
S1E8
7.8

Air date: 2017-06-13

Runtime: 51 min

Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.

Chapter Nine
S1E9
8.1

Air date: 2017-06-20

Runtime: 52 min

Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.

Chapter Ten
S1E10
8.3

Air date: 2017-06-27

Runtime: 55 min

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.

Top Cast

Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush

Albert Einstein

Johnny Flynn

Johnny Flynn

Albert Einstein

Samantha Colley

Samantha Colley

Mileva Marić

Emily Watson

Emily Watson

Elsa Einstein

Ralph Brown

Ralph Brown

Max Planck

Richard Topol

Richard Topol

Fritz Haber

Michael McElhatton

Michael McElhatton

Philipp Lenard

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