© Slovak post, 2005 In December 2000, the World Congress of Physical Societies was held in Berlin. The more than 40 physical societies from around the world that were present approved the proposal to declare 2005 as the World Year of Physics. UNESCO expressed its support for and approved of this proposal in 2003, followed by the United Nations in 2004. The background of this proposal was the centennial of the publishing of Albert Einstein’s legendary scientific papers (the so-called “Annus Mirabilis” in 1905). These papers set the fundamentals for three fields of physics: the principle of relativity, the quantum theory...