and the "Greatest Scientific Discovery Ever" |
1879:Born in Ulm.1886: Start of education in Munich.1896:Leaves Germany; moves to Switzerland (Swiss citizen1901-1955).1905:Working in an unlikely place (the patent office in Bern), heintroduces special relativity theory, explains the photoelectric effect,writes a ground- breaking paper on statistical mechanics, and getsa doctorate of ETH Zurich for something else.1908:Habilitation (postdoctoral thesis) in Bern; Privatdozent.1911:Full professor in Prague.1914:Moves to University of Berlin,encouraged byMax Planck,founder of quantum physics, the other pillar of 20th century physics.
