Describe einstein contribution in the field of science.short paragraph
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Einstein’s name is synonymous with genius. He was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is widely regarded as the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, particularly for his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. Einstein is forever etched in popular imagination for his world-famous equation E = mc2. Einstein published over 300 scientific papers and over 150 non-scientific works.
n 1905, he obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich. 1905 also happened to be a miracle year for Einstein because in that year he published four of his very significant and groundbreaking scientific papers.
Those four papers were on (1) photoelectric effect – he showed that energy is exchanged only in discrete amounts (quanta), (2) Brownian motion – evidence for atomic theory, (3) special relativity – reconciled Maxwell’s equations for electricity and magnetism with the laws of mechanics by Newton, and (4) equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc2) – suggesting that tiny particles of matter could be converted into huge amounts of energy, foreshadowing the development of atomic power. This brought him to the attention of the academic world, and he thereafter held several positions as a professor of theoretical physics.