The 1905 Papers
Concerning an Heuristic Point of View Toward the Emission
and Transformation of Light. Annalen der Physik 17 (1905): 132-148.
Online (PDF): http://dbserv.ihep.su/~elan/src/einstein05/eng.pdf
Explanation of the photoelectric effect with use of the quantum hypothesis of
Planck. Light is a flow of corpuscular objects with definite energies - Planck's
quanta of energy.
On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary
Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat. Annalen
der Physik 17 (1905): 549-560.
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. Annalen der Physik 17 (1905): 891-921.
Online (PDF): http://dbserv.ihep.su/~elan/src/einstein05b/eng.pdf
Invention of the theory of special relativity. Beginnings of the relativistic
era in physics.
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy Content? Annalen
der Physik 18 (1905): 639-641.
Online (PDF): http://dbserv.ihep.su/~elan/src/einstein05c/eng.pdf
Invention of the theory of special relativity, E = mc2. Beginnings of the relativistic
era in physics
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Biographical Essays
Cropper, William H. Adventure in Thought - Albert Einstein (in
his) Great physicists: the life and times of leading physicists
from Galileo to Hawking. Oxford, New York, Oxford Univ. Press,
c2001: 203-227.
QC15.C76 2001
Einstein, Albert (in) Dictionary of scientific biography. New
York, Scribner, 1981. v. IV: 312-333.
Q141.D5 <SciRR-Desk>
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Other Readings
Einstein, Albert. The collected papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton,
N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987. 8 v.
QC16.E5 A2 1987 <SciRR>
Einstein’s 1905 Papers (in) Albert Einstein, edited by Clarice Swisher.
San Diego, Greenhaven Press, c2002: 56-65.
QC16.E5 E3917 2002
Einstein’s miraculous year: five papers that changed the face of
physics. Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, c1998. 198 p.
QC7 .E52 1998 <SciRR>
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Journal Articles
Einstein’s Century. Astronomy, v. 33, Feb. 2005. Special Section:
30-53.
Einstein’s Legacy. Science, v. 307, Feb. 11, 2005. Special Section:
865-890.
Miller, Arthur I. Einstein, Picasso. Physics Education, v. 39, no. 6, Nov.
2004: 484-489.
Miraculous visions. Economist, v. 374, Jan. 1, 2005: 59-62.
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Web Sites
Albert Einstein
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews,
Scotland
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html
Detailed biography with hyperlinks.
Albert Einstein (1979-1955)
American Institute of Physics
http://aip.org/history/esva/exhibits/ein.htm
Links to exhibit, bibliography, special features, essays by historians, and
his voice, explaining the Equivalence of Energy and Matter, the equation E
is equal to m c-squared.
Albert Einstein
Nobelprize.org
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921, "for his services to Theoretical
Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
EinsteinLight
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight
"the finer points of relativity in less time
than it takes to eat a sandwich."
E=mc²
Government of New Zealand
http://www.eequalsmcsquared.auckland.ac.nz/sites/emc2/emc2_home.cfm
Terrific summaries of the 1905 papers, and more.
Five Papers That Shook the World
PhysicsWeb
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/1/2/1
Matthew Chalmers describes Einstein's miraculous year in a feature article
from Physics World.
Living Einstein
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
http://living-einstein.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/living_einstein
Includes primary sources, articles, teaching material, as well as links to
other Einstein-related Websites.
Einstein
Archive
University of Leiden, Netherlands
http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/Einstein_archive/
Includes three of Einstein's manuscripts,
including one recently found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute
for Theoretical Physics.
The Great Works - 1905
American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/great1.htm
A chronology of Einstein’s 1905 work.
World Year of Physics 2005 - Einstein in the 21st Century
http://www.physics2005.org/index.html | 
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