Abstract "A short history of chemistry" Chapter 8 We expect scientists to be trying to discover new things, and for science to be constantly changing. But what would science be like if we thought that everything had already been discovered? Being a top scientist might then involve just reading about other people’s discoveries. However, Bryson states that the most important advances came from the German physicist Albert Einstein. As a young Swiss bureaucrat without university affiliation, Einstein published in 1905 documents that defined and explained various aspects of quantum theory, including the theory of relativity. Shortly after, he defined the relationship of energy to mass and the constant speed of light with its equation E = mc2 that equals mass and energy and shows that the speed of light is constant. In 1917, Einstein was based on his theory of relativity with the publication of an article entitled Cosmological considerations on the general theory of relat...
