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Einstein: molecular dimensions from diffusion and viscosity

Contribution grade

Statistical physics · quantitative molecular inference

Reference score90,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Macroscopic solution measurements became a quantitative probe of molecular scale.

Scientific scope

The 1905 Zurich dissertation as submitted; the separate Brownian-motion paper and later corrections are excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This records the 1905 dissertation submitted at Zurich, not the separate Brownian-motion paper. Later correction and refined constants are outside this record.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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