As part of the U-Store's yearlong celebration of Albert Einstein's life and accomplishments, Washington University adjunct professor of physics John S. Rigden spoke about Einstein's major accomplishments of the year 1905 at the store Monday night.
This year, the centennial of Einstein's groundbreaking papers, is being celebrated by the United Nations as the World Year of Physics. It is also the 50th anniversary year of Einstein's death. The foundation of Rigden's talk was his new book "Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness," currently on the U-Store's bestseller list.
"The wonderful thing about human reason is that it can find the laws of nature," Rigden said. "A fast mind at work is something that no other animal can replicate."
The five papers Einstein published in 1905 — on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and special relativity — revolutionized the field of physics. Einstein spent two decades in Princeton and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study.
"For Princeton to be his home for these [final] years, every one of you ought to stand tall," Rigden said to the audience at the end of his lecture.
"Walk up Mercer Street, stop in front of [Einstein's] house and think about what he accomplished," he said.
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