Albert Einstein (In Our Time)
1905 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. This was Albert Einstein, then still a technical expert at a Swiss patent office, and that year of 1905 became known as his annus mirabilis ('miraculous year'). While Einstein came from o
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Around 1905
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- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
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- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- General relativity published (1915)