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zhihau said:the foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the 20th century by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, David Hilbert, and others.
A.Einstein's contribution came mainly from the photo-electric effect if me understand correctly, 4 big papers floored most of the scientific community in that miraculous year
He got his Nobel Prize for his Theory on the photo-electric effect although his General Theory of Relativity was where he built his fame with many predictions from his theory proven right. That Theory had not been seriously challenged until quite recently and even then only in minor adjustments rather than a total revamp.