Episode guide
Genius: Einstein
10 episodes · premiered Apr 25, 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.”
- Episode 1: Chapter One Apr 25, 2017 · 1h 5m 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.
- Episode 2: Chapter Two May 2, 2017 · 51m After butting heads in class, Einstein falls in love with the determined Mileva Maric. Their affair raises eyebrows.
- Episode 3: Chapter Three May 9, 2017 · 51m Einstein struggles to support his pregnant wife and land an academic post in a rigid world of tradition and protocol.
- Episode 4: Chapter Four May 16, 2017 · 51m Albert Einstein and Mileva juggle raising a kids with his attempts to catch the eye of the scientific establishment.
- Episode 5: Chapter Five May 23, 2017 · 51m Einstein begins to experience the academic life he coveted, but he falters in his familial responsibilities. He is reintroduced to his cousin Elsa.
- Episode 6: Chapter Six May 30, 2017 · 51m 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.
- Episode 7: Chapter Seven Jun 6, 2017 · 51m In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
- Episode 8: Chapter Eight Jun 13, 2017 · 51m Einstein and his wife Elsa attempt to flee Germany after the rise of the Nazis, but they face unexpected roadblocks.
- Episode 9: Chapter Nine Jun 20, 2017 · 52m Albert Einstein settles into life in America, but dangers abroad continue to be a threat to both him and his former colleagues.
- Episode 10: Chapter Ten Jun 27, 2017 · 55m 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.