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To: neverdem

Has anyone ever wondered why Einstein didn’t get a Nobel Prize for his theory on relativity?


21 posted on 07/05/2008 10:47:15 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve
Has anyone ever wondered why Einstein didn’t get a Nobel Prize for his theory on relativity?

No. This is well known.

26 posted on 07/06/2008 8:28:10 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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IINM, in the first decades of the Nobel Prizes, the prize for physics was only awarded for applied (as opposed to theoretical) physics. So after the Eddington expedition validated his theory of relativity (i think the General Theory, but i’m not certain), the Nobel folk awarded the prize to him based (officially, at least) on his work on the photovoltaic effect, which he did in 1905.


29 posted on 07/06/2008 10:13:15 AM PDT by eddiespaghetti ( with the meatball eyes)
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