Hi Ezra T. Newman!
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Why is 1905 considered Einstein's annus mirabilis, or miracle year?
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Einstein was at the time a young (26 year old) unknown physicist working in the Swiss patent office. Working alone in that year he published three scientific papers,
1. on Brownian motion: it proved the existence of molecules
2. on the photo-electric effect : that light behaved as particles sometimes, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for this work
3. on the special theory - revolutionized our ideas about space and time.
Each one of these papers created a revolution in Science. Anyone of them would have made its author into a world famous physicist. It was unprecedented for any one person to have produced three such ground breaking papers at any time. And it was Miraculous that a single person, working alone, could have done it in that one year. Never in science, before or afterwards, has anything like this occurred. A good reason to call it "annus mirabilis, or miracle year".

By: Ezra T. Newman at: 23rd December, 2009