The year was 1905, a year considered as a Miraculous Year by physicists and scientist the world over. It was on this eventful year that Albert Einstein, through his seminal scientific discoveries, laid the foundation of the three fundamental fields in physics, namely, theory of relativity, quantum theory, and theory of Brownian motion. Indeed, it was an exciting year for physic and physicists as new and revolutionary ideas came to the fore, only to bring science to even greater glory.
Considered a titan of science, Albert Einstein wrote in that fertile year of 1905 three papers that rocked the world with his ideas on relativity, quantum theory, and molecular theory, thereby defining 20th century physics. Altering forever the way that we view the natural world, Einstein wholly discarded the absolutes of time and space. His work also launched quantum mechanics and modern statistical mechanics. In his first paper, he established that like must sometimes behave like a stream of particles having discrete energies called "quanta". His second paper proposed an experimental test for heat, while his third paper solved the enigma of the connection between electromagnetic theory and ordinary motion by using his principle of relativity. His most celebrated formula E=mc squared was a "key to the atomic bomb- and all the history that sprang from it." A hundred years after, we are still reaping the harvest sown by Einstein's genius.
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