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DID YOU
         Scientific papers can be                   KNOW?

         thought of  as “academic
                                                   Albert published
         articles,” since scholars                 more than 300

         write them in order to                    scientific papers
                                                  during his lifetime!
         introduce new ideas in a

         particular subject.
             Albert’s first paper was called

         “Conclusions Drawn from the Capillarity
         Phenomena.” It was published in 1901

         in a German-language journal called Annalen
         der Physik (Annals of  Physics in English). This paper

         described some of  his ideas about the forces
         between molecules, especially how far

         molecules were from one another. Although
         his theories in this area would later turn out to

         be incorrect, the paper’s publication marked a
         very important moment in Albert’s personal

         history. It was his first contribution to the world
         of formal physics.




         What are             The smallest physical unit of a material.
         molecules?           Molecules are groups of atoms that are held
                              together by a naturally strong attraction
                              between them.

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