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five major research papers in an important German physics journal. He received a doctorate for the first paper. Publication of the next four papers forever changed mankind’s view of the universe. The first one provided a theory explaining Brownian movement, the zigzag motion of microscopic particles in suspension (See Colloid). Einstein suggested that the movement was caused by the random motion of molecules of the suspension medium as they bounced against the suspended particles. A second paper