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Annus mirabilis (1905)

Einstein's “miracle year” 1905, when he published four physics-changing papers.

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The Latin “annus mirabilis” (miracle year) refers to 1905, when the 26-year-old patent clerk published four landmark papers in the Annalen der Physik: on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and mass–energy equivalence.

Any one would have been a career; together they reshaped modern physics.

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