The “Miracle Year papers” (Annus mirabilis papers)
Einstein wrote four seminal papers in one year (1905). “Seminal” is not a euphemism; by “seminal”, we’re talking about earth-shattering, generational physics papers (such as the theory of special relativity and the famous equation E = mc^2).
In 1905, Einstein was 26, had a newborn baby (his first son was born in 1904), and was working at the Swiss Patent Office as an assistant examiner. His access to information, in today’s standard, was laughably limited; No ARPAnet, no world wide web, no Google search, no chatGPT, etc.
Just another reminder that there’s truly no limit to the human potential!