Albert Einstein

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one in the history of physical science, because Einstein
contributed three papers to Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), a
German scientific periodical. Each of them became the basis of a new
branch of physics.

In one of the papers, Einstein suggested that light could be
thought of as a stream of tiny particles. This idea forms an important
part of the quantum theory. In 1900, the German physicist Max K. E. L.
Planck had proposed that the radiation of light occurred in packets of
energy, called quanta. Einstein extended this idea by arguing that light
itself consisted of quanta, which were later called photons.

Einstein's relativity theory changed scientific thought with new
idea of time, space, mass, motion, and gravitation. He treated matter and
energy as exchangeable, not distinct. In doing, he laid the basis for
controlling the release of energy from the atom.

Einstein was one of the fathers of the nuclear age. Einstein's
famous equation, E equals m ...

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