In Our Time: Albert Einstein

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Albert Einstein, who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. While Einstein came from outside the academic world, some such as Max Planck championed his theory of special relativity, his principle of mass-energy equivalence that followed, and his explanations of Brownian Motion and the photoelectric effect. Yet it was not until 1919, when a solar eclipse proved his theory that gravity would bend light, that Einstein became an international celebrity and developed into an almost mythical figure