Albert Einstein Publishes Theory of Special

Albert Einstein Publishes Theory of Special: Albert Einstein was named “Man of the Century” in 1999. In a century of amazing accomplishments what made this German, Jewish Scholar such a standout? The theories of what keeps the world together that he presented in 1905 revolutionized the underlying principles of physics. He is credited as being the “Father of Modern Physics” for the four seminal papers published in 1905 while he was only twenty-six years-old. I’s hard to put a number on it, but a large percentage could not have been accomplished without his contributions. In 1921 he was awarded the Noble Prize in Physics for his findings, not of his Theory of Relativity that overthrew the basic tenets of Newton’s physics worldview but for his discovery of the photoelectric effect to translate light falling on some surfaces will release electrons (energy). But his conception if the equivalence of matter and energy embodied in his Theory of Relativity is what made him famous. Who can forget E=mc2? “Equivalence of matter and energy, E = mc2 (and by implication, the ability of gravity-and matter generally-to "bend" light), the existence of "rest energy", and the basis of nuclear energy (the conversion of matter to energy by humans and in the cosmos).” (Wikipedia) So, let’s get on with our exploration of Albert Einstein, the man and his ideas that “Shook the World”… GLB