Another annus mirabilis?
Aug 10, 2004
As most members of the physics community are surely aware, next year will mark the 100th anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis. In 1905 the unknown patent clerk from the Swiss capital Bern published a series of groundbreaking papers on Brownian motion (which convinced the doubters that atoms really did exist), special relativity and the photoelectric effect. Few individual physicists will read, let alone write, papers on such a diverse range of subjects this year.
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