Einstein's miracle year
1905
A twenty-six-year-old Swiss patent clerk, unable to get a university job, published four papers in twelve months. One explained the photoelectric effect, one proved atoms exist, one redefined space and time, and one noted that mass and energy are the same thing. No one else in physics has ever had such a year.
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- Bloody Sunday at the Winter Palace · Europe · Politics
- October Manifesto creates a Duma · Europe · Politics
- Sinn Fein founded in Dublin · Europe · Politics
- Salvation Army spreads globally · Europe · Religion
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