Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", or "miraculous year". This term has been used to...
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The annus mirabilis papers (from Latin annus mīrābilis, "miracle year") are the four papers that Albert Einstein published in Annalen der Physik (Annals...
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Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667. It commemorated 1665–1666, the "year of miracles" of London. Despite the poem's name...
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Annus horribilis (pl. anni horribiles) is a Latin phrase that means "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year"...
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Albert Einstein (section 1905 – Annus Mirabilis papers)
he published four groundbreaking papers, sometimes described as his annus mirabilis (miracle year). These papers outlined a theory of the photoelectric...
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Great Britain in the Seven Years' War (redirect from Annus Mirabilis of 1759)
consolidate and achieve its war aims. In 1759, Britain enjoyed an Annus Mirabilis, with success over the French on the continent (Germany), in North...
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Kingdom of Norway (1814) (redirect from Annus mirabilis (Norway))
In 1814, the Kingdom of Norway made a brief and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to regain its independence. While Norway had always legally been a separate...
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John Keats (section Wentworth Place: annus mirabilis)
though a difficult period for the poet, marked the beginning of his annus mirabilis in which he wrote his most mature work. He had been inspired by a series...
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physics journal. These are the papers that history has come to call the Annus Mirabilis papers: His paper on the particulate nature of light put forward the...
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mirabilis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mirabilis is a Latin adjective meaning "amazing, wondrous, remarkable", and is used to refer to: Annus mirabilis...
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emitted by them. 2005 was renamed the "annus mirabilis" of numerical relativity, 100 years after the annus mirabilis papers of special relativity (1905)...
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work Marić is thought by some to have contributed (in particular the Annus Mirabilis papers). Marić married Einstein in 1903 and they had three children...
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain...
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committee also failed to recognize the other contributions of his Annus Mirabilis papers on Brownian motion and special relativity. Often these nominations...
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Picasso of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter. Painted during Picasso's annus mirabilis, the work depicts Walter sitting upright in an armchair. In 2023, the...
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that was, if not acceptable, at least understandable. John Dryden, in Annus Mirabilis, suggested that the king's keeping of mistresses and production of...
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being drawn up against Ireland for a play-off tie, making 2011 the "annus mirabilis of Estonian football". They have since repeated this feat by qualifying...
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Edward Ford (courtier) (section Annus Horribilis)
having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding 1992 an annus horribilis. She used the phrase in a speech to describe...
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Casket, act 1, scene 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro...
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the siege of Calais on 4 September 1346 became known as Edward III's annus mirabilis (year of marvels). After an eleven-month siege, which stretched both...
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Luís Cruls (section 1882: Cruls' annus mirabilis)
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey cites 1882 as Cruls' annus mirabilis. In that single year, Cruls co-discovered the Great Comet of 1882,...
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wife Mileva Marić, and their son Hans Einstein from 1903 to 1905. The Annus Mirabilis papers, which presented Einstein's theory of relativity and contributed...
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examples of ballad meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns employ...
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People Really Read in 1922: If Winter Comes, the Bestseller in the Annus Mirabilis of Modernism", in Macdonald, Kate, and Singer, Christoph, Eds, Transitions...
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localized use until 1923. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure...
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theorem, including Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion during his annus mirabilis and Harry Nyquist's explanation in 1928 of Johnson noise in electrical...
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the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?", one of his annus mirabilis papers, published on 21 November 1905. The formula and its relationship...
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"This Be The Verse" and "The Explosion", as well as the title poem. "Annus Mirabilis" (Year of Wonder), also from that volume, contains the frequently quoted...
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year. In Britain, the victory is celebrated as contributing to the Annus Mirabilis of 1759. The western German-speaking states of Europe had been a major...
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Albert Einstein Archives Scientific publications by Albert Einstein Annus Mirabilis papers (1905) "Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement" (1905)...
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