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Albert Einstein Exhibit - 2005
"The year 2005 marks the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis of 1905 and of the 50th anniversary of his death in 1955. The miracle year saw the publication of path-breaking papers on the light quantum hypothesis, Brownian motion and special relativity, including the introduction of his famous formula E=mc2."*
All of these papers were published by the 26-year-old Einstein in the Annalen der Physik, one of the major physics journals of the time.
Taken together these papers revolutionized physics and influenced the course of science, technology, politics, and culture in the 20th century and beyond.
* http://living-einstein.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/living_einstein
Web Sites
Einstein's Annus Mirabilis 1905
World Year of Physics, 2005
Einstein Archives Online
Annalen der Physik, 2005 Supplement has reprints of the four papers plus contemporary commentary.
Annalen der Physik, Feb., 2005 has articles reviewing Einstein's most important papers.
A century of Einstein.
The New Journal of Physics has three Celebratory Focus Issues on Einstein.
The Four Papers
Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristishen GesichtspunktAnnalen der Physik, 17: 132-148, submitted March 17, 1905.
Die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen.
Annalen der Physik, 17: 549-560, submitted May 11, 1905.
Elektrodynamic bewegter Körper.
Annalen der Physik, 17: 891-921, submitted June 30, 1905.
Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieeinhalt abhängig?
Annalen der Physik, 18: 639-641, submitted September 27, 1905.
These papers have recently been reprinted in 2005 Annalen der Physik , along with some contemporary articles about Einstein.
Books
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
The collected papers of Albert Einstein / Anna Beck, translator ; Peter Havas, consultant.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1987-<2002>
Walter Sci/Eng Library Books (Level F) QC16.E5 A2 1987a
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The expanded quotable Einstein / collected and edited by Alice Calaprice ; with a foreword by Freeman Dyson.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Sci/Eng Library Reference (Rm 206) QC16.E5 A25 2000 Non-Circulating
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Clark, Ronald William
Einstein: the life and times
New York, World Pub. Co. [1971]
Sci/Eng Library Books (Level F) QC16.E5 C5 Regular Loan
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