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Perhaps the most significant individual of the 20th century, s contributions to science reshaped physics in ways that continue to be explored and led to the development of atomic energy and the atomic bomb. A nonobservant German Jew, he was a late bloomer as a student, showing slow language development. Although folklore claims Einstein was a poor math student, he had a knack for mechanics and geometry at an early age, teaching himself geometry ands Elements. Any reputation he may have had as a poor student came from his dissatisfaction with the curriculum at the German gymnasiums; at age 16 he left school, failed his university entrance exam for the Federal Polytechnic Institute (FPI), and took steps toward formulating his theories of relativity.
He was accepted at the FPI the following year and four years after that was granted a teaching position.Consequences on the Observationshinted at his hopes for universal physical laws, binding principles that would govern all of physics. When he graduated FPI, he took a job as a patent clerk and continued to work on scientifi c papers in his spare time. Four such papers were published in the Annalen der Physik journal in 1905, each of them major contributions to the shapeAnnuspapers.
The Annus Mirabilis papers concerned the photoelectrics treatment of which helped provide more evidence for the existence of atoms; matter and energy equivalence, the paper thats equation E=mc2; and special relativity, which contradicted Newtonian physics by stipulating the speed of light as a constant. The importance ofthey continue to be relevant to physicists today, and the photoelectric effect paper had a huge effect on the development of quantum mechanics and earned Einstein a Nobel Prize.
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