1 January 1905President of SwitzerlandMarc-Émile Ruchet
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Historical records for Switzerland in 1905, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Sends his light-quantum paper to Annalen der Physik, using quanta to explain the photoelectric effect.
Submits A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions as his doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich.
Annalen der Physik receives Einstein's paper explaining Brownian motion through molecular collisions.
Submits On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, establishing the special theory of relativity.
The University of Zurich faculty unanimously approves Einstein's doctoral dissertation.
Submits the paper deriving the relation between mass and energy from special relativity.
Explains photoelectric emission by proposing that light transfers energy in discrete quanta to electrons.
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