Photoelectric Effect Paper Submitted
Sends his light-quantum paper to Annalen der Physik, using quanta to explain the photoelectric effect.
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1905 in United States of America
Explore 17 historical events and records for United States of America in 1905.
Historical records for United States of America in 1905
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March
April
Doctoral Dissertation Submitted
Submits A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions as his doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich.
May
Brownian Motion Paper Received
Annalen der Physik receives Einstein's paper explaining Brownian motion through molecular collisions.
June
Special Relativity
Submits On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, establishing the special theory of relativity.
July
Panama Canal Chief Engineer
Stevens takes charge and reorganises the canal project's railway, housing and logistics.
Doctorate Approved
The University of Zurich faculty unanimously approves Einstein's doctoral dissertation.
September
Mass-Energy Equivalence
Submits the paper deriving the relation between mass and energy from special relativity.
December
Birth of Howard Hughes
Birth of Howard Hughes
Other events (month unknown)
Agreement of Taft-Katsura
Taft meets Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro & they sign a secret diplomatic memorandum called the Taft-Katsura Agreement
Discovery of Elara
Discovers Elara, an outer irregular moon of Jupiter, using photographic observations.
Marriage
Marries her cousin, Franklin D Roosevelt
Peace
Presides over the Peace negotiations
Photoelectric Quantum Explanation
Explains photoelectric emission by proposing that light transfers energy in discrete quanta to electrons.
Secretary of State
Appointed Secretary of State
Taft-Katsura Agreement
Taft meets Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro & they sign a secret diplomatic memorandum called the Taft-Katsura Agreement
The House of Mirth
Publication of "The House of Mirth"
The Troll Garden
Cather published The Troll Garden, her first collection of short fiction.
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