The Einstein Essays
Einstein’s 1905 paper on the Photoelectric Effect
The paper that earned Einstein the Nobel Prize
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12 min readAug 28, 2019
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 premier physics journal at the time. In the paper, Einstein first proposed…
