Subtitled, }Five Papers That Changed The Face Of Physics{. Focuses on the personal aspects of Einstein's youth that facilitated and led up to the miraculous year, 100 years ago In twelve months after the year 1905, Einstein shattered many scientific beliefs with five papers that established him as the world's leading physicist. This book brings those papers including the papers that founded special relativity: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" FOREWORD, by Roger Penrose vii INTRODUCTION TO THE CENTENARY EDITION, by John Stachel xv PUBLISHER'S PREFACE lxxiii CORRIGENDA lxxiv INTRODUCTION, by John Stachel 3(26) PART ONE Einstein's Dissertation on the Determination of Molecular Dimensions 29(42) PAPER 1. A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions 45(26) PART TWO Einstein on Brownian Motion 71(28) PAPER 2. On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in Liquids at Rest Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat 85(14) PART THREE Einstein on the Theory of Relativity 99(66) PAPER 3. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies 123(38) PAPER 4. Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content? 161(4) PART FOUR Einstein's Early Work on the Quantum Hypothesis 165 PAPER 5. On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light 177