Andreas Christoph Albrecht was born in California and raised in Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge and Vienna.
[1] He studied chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, where he met Genia Solomon, who would later become his wife.
Subsequently, Andreas and Genia moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work as postdoctoral researchers.
In the 1980s she resumed her career and became a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at Cornell where she was honored for her teaching contributions.
In 1986 he was given the New York Academy of Science Polychrome Corporation Award in Photochemistry, in 1988 the Lippincott-Medal and in 1990 the Earle K. Plyler Prize from the American Physical Society.