Vasant Natarajan is at the Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore. His current research involves trapping of atoms to carry out high precision tests of fundamental physics. He has earlier worked on high precision mass spectrometry and on the focussing of atomic beams by laser fields.

V Balakrishnan is at the Department of Physics, IIT- Madras, Chennai. His research interests are in dynamical systems, stochastics and statistical physics.
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N Mukunda is at the Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore. His interests are classical and quantum mechanics, theoretical optics and mathematical physics..

With each passing year, the young Albert Einstein's achievements in physics in the year 1905 seem to be ever more miraculous. We describe why the centenary of this remarkable year is worthy of celebration

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Address for Correspondence
Vasant Natarajan
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012, India.
Email: vasant@physics.iisc.ernet.in
http://physics.iisc.ernet.in/~vasant

V Balakrishnan
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Chennai 600 036, India.
Email: vbalki@physics.iitm.ac.in

N Mukunda,
Centre for High Energy Physics
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore 560012, India.
Email: nmukunda@cts.iisc.ernet.in