Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Photoelectric effect (1905) Brownian motion (1905) Special theory of relativity (1905) General theory of relativity (1915) Gravitational waves (1916): Einstein’s prediction of gravitational waves was experimentally confirmed by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) exactly 100 years later on February 11, 2016 (last Thursday) Stimulated emission of radiation (1917): a pivotal theory to such developments as the maser and the laser Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and Bose-Einstein statistics (1924—1925): the BEC was experimentally discovered by the three scientists (Cornell, Wieman, Ketterle) who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)
Galilean Relativity
Postulates of SR (special relativity)
SI and GU (geometric units)