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Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom

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As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a “failed” academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our understanding of the universe. Larry Lagerstrom details these four groundbreaking papers.

Einstein's fourth "miracle year" paper, in September 1905, expanded on the results of the relativity paper and thereby concluded that:

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  • Educator Larry Lagerstrom
  • Animator Jon Portman
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
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  • Illustrator Alli Berry
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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