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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)
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Galilean Relativity
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Postulates of SR (special relativity)
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SI and GU (geometric units)
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