Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 3(1), pp. 55 - 68
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CENTENARY OF FIVE FUNDAMENTAL EINSTEIN'S PAPERS

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Sredniawa B.

ABSTRACT

Five Einstein's fundamental papers, published in 1905, are reported, namely the paper on the photoelectric effect, where the concept of photon was introduced, the paper on Brownian movement, where Einstein proved that this movement is the consequence of the atomic hypothesis, his doctoral dissertation on the sizes of molecules, the paper on electrodynamics of moving bodies, containing the principles of special relativity theory, and the paper on the principle of the mass and energy equivalence. The consequences of these papers on the development of 20^th century physics are discussed.