1. -"Anyone who has never made a
mistake
has never tried anything new."
2. Einstein solved the first major problem in
physics with the first paper of his miracle year,
the paper on the light quantum.
German physicist Max Planck had used a mathematical trick to
explain radiation in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum; he
bundled light into quanta of energy. In the first paper of 1905,
Einstein made Planck's quanta a property of light and of all
electromagnetic radiation (radio waves, x-rays, ultraviolet and
infrared light, and so on). It isn't that light is lumpy in some
instances. Light is always lumpy, like a particle. It comes in
bundles. The light emitted by hot objects isn't somehow split
into these bundles. Light is made up of these bundles, these
photons as they are called, that can't be split.
3. By making lumpiness a property of light, Einstein paved the way
for the development of quantum theory that would take place in
the 1920s. Quantum theory would later explain that light is both
a wave and a particle. Light behaves like a wave under certain
conditions, and under other conditions, it behaves like a particle.
Quantum theory integrates both behaviors seamlessly.
Even though Einstein's first paper was read with a
great deal of interest, most physicists didn't believe
his idea of photons of light, including Planck himself
initially. For the next 15 years, Einstein was almost
the only one who believed in the light quantum
idea. But quantum theory, developed by other
physicists in the 1920s based on Einstein's work,
would become the most successful physics theory
ever.
4. In March 1905 , Einstein created the quantum
theory of light, the idea that light exists as tiny
packets, or particles, which he called photons.
Alongside Max Planck's work on quanta of heat
Einstein proposed one of the most shocking idea in
twentieth century physics: we live in a quantum
universe, one built out of tiny, discrete chunks of
energy and matter
in June, Einstein completed special relativity -
which added a twist to the story: Einstein's
March paper treated light as particles, but
special relativity sees light as a continuous field
of waves. Such a contradiction took a
supremely confident mind to propose.
Einstein, age 26, saw light as wave and particle,
picking the attribute he needed to confront
each problem in turn.
5. Albert Einstein is like the father of
modern physics. The theories he
developed has made a
revolutionary change for physics.
Einstein published more than 300
scientific papers along with over
150 non-scientific works. This
amount of scientific work he has
done throughout his life is indeed
admirable, and is something we
can learn from. His perseverance
has impacted many of us, and
the world of Physics.
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• Wikipedia
• Google
• http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/einstein-
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