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"There is a motive power more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will." Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein has been considered one of the most important physicists of all time. His work was not limited to the field of physics, but he had concerns about philosophical issues.

In 1901 appeared the first scientific work of Einstein: it was about the capillary attraction. He published two papers in 1902 and 1903 on the statistical foundations of thermodynamics, corroborating experimentally that the temperature of a body is due to the agitation of its molecules, a theory still discussed at that time.

Einstein became famous internationally after the publication of his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. This publication was supplemented by two texts that laid the foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics.

In 1905 he finished his doctorate presenting a thesis titled a new determination of the molecular dimensions. That same year he wrote four fundamental articles on small and large-scale physics. In them he explained the Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and developed special relativity and mass-energy equivalence. Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would provide him with the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. These articles were sent to the journal Annalen der Physik and are generally known as the articles of the "Annus Mirabilis" (from Latin: Miraculous Year). The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics together with UNESCO commemorated 2005 as the World Year of Physics celebrating the centenary of publication of these works.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, Einstein had to leave Germany because of the rise of Nazism. He resided in the United States from 1940 until his death in 1955, teaching at Princeton University.