Albert Einstein: His Annus Mirabilis 1905
Abstract
Einstein in 1905, his year of miracles, wrote five papers which mark a watershed between classical physics and modern physics. They dealt with problem of reality of atoms, theory of special relativity which overthrew Newtonian conceptions of space and time, and his revolutionary light quantum hypothesis which together with Planck's work on black body radiation started the quantum revolution. We put these discoveries in the context of that period and also indicate their later influence.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2007
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.physics/0701240
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0701240
- Bibcode:
- 2007physics...1240S
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Popular Physics
- E-Print:
- Inaugural Lecture of ``Einstein Lecture Series'' (9 lectures) delivered at Nehru Center, Mumbai on July 9, 2005. Similar lectures were also given at other institutions