In this period (1913–1923), there was simply no convincing explanation of the photoelectric effect ... "We learned from ...

He developed a mathematical formula to explain ... His second paper was on the photoelectric effect, or the release of electrons from metal when light shines on it. Einstein used the very recent ...

This led him to develop the photoelectric effect, which won him the ... E = mc2 is possibly the most famous equation in physics and probably the work Einstein is best known for.

His equations predicted a dynamic ... In 1905, dubbed his "year of miracles," Einstein published his explanation of the photoelectric effect, his theory on Brownian motion, and two papers on ...