In the history of science, the term annus mirabilis, Latin for extraordinary or miraculous year, refers to several years since 1666, including 1905, when a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, published four papers that revolutionised our understanding of the physical world. With no resources and few scientific contacts, within 12 months, Albert Einstein published papers related to the photoelectric effect, the Brownian motion of particles showing the link between molecular motion and heat, the theory of special relativity, and the mass-energy equivalence (E=mc 2). For more than a century, many scientists have sought to achieve even a fraction of this productivity and transformational success.
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