"A storm broke loose in my mind"

The San Diego Union Tribune details Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis:

Between March and September of 1905, Einstein--working full time as a patent clerk to support a new wife and infant son--wrote five research papers that would ultimately help elevate him to icon status.

Three days before his 26th birthday, he submitted the first. It described the particle nature of light. It was followed by his doctoral dissertation, which would become one of his most cited works, then his papers on Brownian motion, the theory of special relativity and the most famous equation of all time: E=mc².