Einstein’s Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)
The paper that earned Einstein the Nobel Prize
About six weeks before he submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Zürich in 1905, Einstein on March 18th submitted the paper ‘Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichttspunkt’ (“On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”) to Annalen der Physik, the world’s prem…
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