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The papers Einstein wrote in 1905 share one characteristic: each concerns something fundamental in physics and suggests an unexpected approach. In this lecture, fully titled Albert Einstein in 1905—Finding New Paths to the Depths of Physics, Klein will point out how startling Einstein's reasoning was. He will concentrate on Einstein's first paper of the year—the only one Einstein described as "very revolutionary"—in which he proposes a "heuristic point of view" for understanding seemingly unintelligible properties of light. This paper introduced the idea of the light quantum.
Martin J. Klein is the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and History of Science at Yale University, and former general editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.
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