Albert Einstein and his wife (not pictured) made a stop at Union Station in Chicago on March 3, 1931. The pair were passing through from Pasadena, California, on their way to New York.

Albert Einstein's discoveries changed our concept of gravity by adding revolutionary layers to Isaac Newton's theories. Here's what else Einstein did.

“Einstein was single-minded, and you can see the good and the bad in that,” says Michael S. Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago and a director for mathematical and physical ...