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Nature 433, 215-217 (20 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433215a; Published online 19 January 2005
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commentary 1905 and all that
John Stachel1
Abstract
How Einstein claimed his place in the changing landscape of physics during his annus mirabilis.
At the end of 1904, a reader who happened to glance over the contributions to the Annalen der Physik (the premier German physics journal) of one Albert Einstein, an obscure clerk at the Swiss patent office, would have found just five articles — the first published in 1901, when its author was 22 years old. These articles constituted Einstein's entire published oeuvre, and none was sufficiently distinguished for our hypothetical reader to anticipate the nature or significance of Einstein's next five papers1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all submitted to the Annalen in 1905, his annus mirabilis.
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