1905: Einstein’s Incredible Year. In 1905 Albert Einstein published five scientific papers that forever changed our view of the world. The account of how a 26-year-old patent clerk came to these discoveries is one of the greatest stories in all of science. Don will give a brief summary of Einstein’s early life and attempt to explain in simple terms his famous results concerning time and space and the most famous equation in science.

Don Ellison is a Physics Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, For some years, he has been giving science talks (mainly astrophysics) for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) at North Carolina State University and Duke University in North Carolina. His talks are geared to non-scientists, avoiding unnecessary jargon and presenting technical subjects in understandable language. No formal background in physics is assumed.