The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Volume 2, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909
Edited by John Stachel, David C. Cassidy, Jürgen Renn, Robert Schulmann, and Don Howard
A. J. Kox, Contributing Editor
Ann Lehar, Editorial Assistant
656 pages
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989
ISBN: 0-691-08526-9

This volume contains the scientific work Einstein published during the first decade of his career, and includes some of the most significant achievements of twentieth-century physics. The first paper was written in 1900 by the twenty-one-year-old Einstein, newly graduated from the ETH in Zurich and still searching in vain for a job. The last paper in this volume is the text of an invited lecture given in 1909 by Einstein after he was appointed to his first academic post at the University of Zurich. He was already recognized as an important theoretical physicist on the basis of the work reprinted here, particularly the three masterpieces that appeared in quick succession during 1905, Einstein's year of miracles.

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