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by Albert Einstein; John Stachel (Editor); Foreword by Roger Penrose

After 1905, physics would never be the same. In those 12 months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five great papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. On their 100th anniversary, this book brings those papers together in an accessible format.


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To anyone familiar with the history of modern science, the phrase "miraculous year" in the title immediately calls to mind its Latin counterpart "annus mirabilis," long used to describe the year 1666, during which Isaac Newton laid the foundations for much of the physics and mathematics that revolutionized seventeenth-century science.

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"It is particularly remarkable that a single physicist--Albert Einstein--has such extraordinarily deep perceptions of the workings of Nature that he laid foundation stones of . . .[the] twentieth-century revolutions [in physics] in the single year of 1905."--From the foreword by Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford

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  • Title Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics
  • Author Albert Einstein; John Stachel (Editor); Foreword by Roger Penrose
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2005-04-17
  • ISBN 9780691122281 / 0691122288
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.58 x 0.72 in (21.54 x 14.17 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
  • Library of Congress subjects Einstein, Albert, Physics - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006283102
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.1

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  • Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 135

About the author

John Stachel is Professor of Physics Emeritus at Boston University, where he directs the Center for Einstein Studies. Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the bestselling author, with Stephen Hawking, of The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
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