List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein

He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics, especially his treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation.

The Schilpp numbers are used for cross-referencing in the Notes (the final column of each table), since they cover a greater time period of Einstein's life at present.

The following chronology of Einstein's scientific discoveries provides a context for the publications listed below, and clarifies the major themes running through his work.

During the first period (from 1901 to 1933), Einstein published mainly in German-language journals, notably the Annalen der Physik, and, after becoming a professional physicist, worked at various German-speaking institutions in Europe, including the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Following his permanent relocation to the United States in 1933, Einstein spent most of his time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he remained till his death in 1955.

[4] Einstein first gained fame among physicists for the papers he submitted in 1905, his annus mirabilis or miraculous year in physics.

His epochal contributions during this phase of his career stemmed from a single problem, the fluctuations of a delicately suspended mirror inside a radiation cavity.

Albert Einstein at the home library of Paul Ehrenfest in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1916
Table of contents of the journal Annalen der Physik for the issue of June 1905. Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect is sixth on this list.
Einstein's doctoral dissertation on molecular dimensions (1905), submitted to the University of Zurich under the supervision of Alfred Kleiner
Einstein's mass–energy equation in a 1912 manuscript. He originally used to represent energy instead of , and instead of for the speed of light. [ 17 ] : 139
A yellowed piece of paper with two main paragraphs of black, handwritten text and some marginalia, strikethroughs, and underlines
First page from Einstein's manuscript explaining general relativity (from 1915 to 1916)