section_path: Scientific career/1905 – Annus Mirabilis papers
section_name: 1905 – Annus Mirabilis papers
paragraph_text: 1905 – Annus Mirabilis papers
  
  The Annus Mirabilis papers are four articles pertaining to the photoelectric effect (which gave rise to quantum theory), Brownian motion, the special theory of relativity, and E = mc that Einstein published in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal in 1905. These four works contributed substantially to the foundation of modern physics and changed views on space, time, and matter. The four papers are: