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I'm pretty sure that we don't need to establish here the intellectual history of Albert Einstein's miracle year of 1905. What I don't normally see are the first mentions of the papers in English, and among the earliest reports there appear in Science Abstracts, Section A--it wasn't until 1920 that the papers were first fully translated into English by M. N. Saha and S. N. Bose as The principle of relativity : original papers by A. Einstein and H. Minkowski, and published by the University of Calcutta.
And so here they are--I only have the first three of the four papers from the Abstracts, as I don't have the second 1905 volume in which the last paper appears.This series was published in London by E. & F.N. Spon (Ltd.) and is the physics volume for the abstracts of scientific papers published in dozens of the world's leading journals, and was/is a standard reference tool. '
The photoelectric effect paper: A. Einstein, Annalen der Physik, volume 17, 132 (1905) [17 pp.] "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt", ("Generation and Transformation of Light"), abstract #1562, page 500:
The Brownian motion paper: A. Einstein, Annalen der Physik, volume 17, 549 (1905) [12 pp.] " Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen", ("Motion of Suspended Particles on the Kinetic Theory"), abstract #1909, page 602,
The Special Relativity paper: A. Einstein, Annalen der Physik, volume 17, 891 (1905) [31 pp.] "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper", "Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", abstract #2277, page 713.
The mass-energy equivalence: at the end of the year, and in the second volume of the Annalen for 1905, came the fourth paper: A. Einstein, volume 18, pp 639-641, "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?"("Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?"). Unfortunately I do not have that volume.
And just for good measure, the review of Einstein's monumental paper of 1916, as it appeared in Science Abstracts, Section A.--Physics, 1916, volume XIX, 191
A. Einstein: . Einstein, Annalen der Physik, volume 49, 769 (1916) [54 pp.], "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie", "The Basis of the General Theory of Relativity", abstract 853, page 316:
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