Genius - Season 1

First aired: 4/25/2017 10 episodes

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.”

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Episodes

1. Chapter One

Aired: 4/25/2017

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.

2. Chapter Two

Aired: 5/2/2017

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

3. Chapter Three

Aired: 5/9/2017

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

4. Chapter Four

Aired: 5/16/2017

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

5. Chapter Five

Aired: 5/23/2017

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

6. Chapter Six

Aired: 5/30/2017

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.

7. Chapter Seven

Aired: 6/6/2017

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

8. Chapter Eight

Aired: 6/13/2017

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

9. Chapter Nine

Aired: 6/20/2017

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

10. Chapter Ten

Aired: 6/27/2017

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.