Einstein's Century ; It Is Almost 100 Years since Albert Einstein Published Five Papers That Revolutionised Our Understanding of the Universe - a Feat Unmatched before or since. Jeremy Laurance Looks at the Life of an Intellectual Colossus Whose Ideas Pulled the Rug from under Reality

Laurance, Jeremy, The Independent (London, England)

ALBERT EINSTEIN joined the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, a little more than a century ago with an undistinguished academic record. He had flunked the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and took a job evaluating inventions because it paid a regular salary.

He wondered if he was a fool to try to become a physicist. Yet in 1905 he made discoveries that dwarfed anything passing through the patent office. Between March and September, he published five papers that revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos, any one of which would have won the Nobel prize. And he was still only 26.

Next year, 2005, has been designated Einstein year …

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Publication information: Article title: Einstein's Century ; It Is Almost 100 Years since Albert Einstein Published Five Papers That Revolutionised Our Understanding of the Universe - a Feat Unmatched before or since. Jeremy Laurance Looks at the Life of an Intellectual Colossus Whose Ideas Pulled the Rug from under Reality. Contributors: Laurance, Jeremy - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: December 3, 2004. Page number: 20,21. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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