[Physicist]

It's interesting to note that while he did eventually win a Nobel Prize for one of these papers, it wasn't the one on Relativity but rather the one on photosynthesis.

Actually, it was the photoelectric effect. Truth be told, that was probably the more significant paper, it being one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics pervades modern technology; relativity does not.

[Andrew Wiggin]

You're right of course. Not only did I say photosynthesis, I said it twice.

[andy_card]

Actually, it was the photoelectric effect.

I believe you are mistaken. He received the Nobel Prize for describing Brownian motion.