Modern pop culture paints scientist Albert Einstein as a bushy-haired superthinker. His ideas, we're told, were improbably far ahead of
other scientists. He must have come from some other planet-maybe the same one that scientist Isaac Newton grew up on.
"Einstein was no space alien," laughs Harvard University physicist and science historian Peter Galison. "He was a man of his time." All of hi
1905 papers unraveled problems being worked on, with mixed success, by other scientists. "If Einstein hadn't been born, [those papers)
would have been written in some form, eventually, by others," Galison believes.
What's remarkable about 1905 is that a single person authored all five papers, plus the original, irreverent way Einstein came to his
conclusions.
Source: NASA
Which definition reflects the meaning of the word papers in this passage?
paper
noun \pa-per
1. a piece of paper
2. a paper container or wrapper
3. a formal piece of writing that is published
4. paper that is used to cover the walls of a room