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What was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Physics Prize in 1921 for? ›

In 1922 Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

Albert Einstein was awarded Nobel Prize in 1921 for discovering the photoelectric effect.

Answer and Explanation: Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He was born in 1879, so he was 42 when he won the Nobel Prize. Of the 207 Nobel Laureates who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the youngest was 25, the oldest was 88 and the average age of all the laureate is 55.

In 1922, the Nobel Prize in Physics was endowed with 121,572:54 Swedish kronor, a relatively small sum compared with other years, yet the equivalent of more than twelve years' income for Albert Einstein. The divorce agreement of February 1919 stipulated that the capital was to be deposited in a Swiss bank account.

A bit of Googling revealed Einstein and Stephen Hawking are both said to have had IQs of around 160. That was when it started to sink in that it was "really quite impressive", Mr Bidwell said.

On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted to award Albert Einstein the previously reserved 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for “his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”

Einstein only won one Nobel Prize and that was for his work on the Photoelectric Effect. His far greater achievements in Special and General Relativity were considered too controversial for the award at the time.

On October 10, 2014, activist Malala Yousafzai, age 17, wins the Nobel Peace Prize. A fierce advocate for girls' education, in her native Pakistan and around the world, she is the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.

Einstein postulated that although light sometimes behaves like a wave, it also consists of discrete packets of energy that he called quanta (now known as photons).

According to the secretary of Albert Einstein, probably the most influential scientist of all time, his last words were spoken in German, and translated, they mean, “I am at the mercy of fate and have no control over it.”

Did Einstein have a wife? ›

Mileva Marić, the first wife of Albert Einstein, was born on December 19, 1875, to Miloš and Marija Marić in the village of Titel in Vojvodina, Serbia, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Whatever the genius's reasoning, it worked. She granted him the divorce, he won the Nobel Prize, and he dutifully transferred the funds (which, according to Shapell.org, amounted to 121,572 Swedish kronor, roughly ten times the annual salary of the average professor at that time) to his ex-wife.

Einstein would receive the prize for his work, and she would receive the money. Marić could draw on the interest, but had no authority over the capital without her ex-husbands permission. In 1922, Marić received the Nobel Prize money that she was promised in her divorce agreement to Einstein.

Answer and Explanation:

Isaac Newton did not win a Nobel Prize, as he lived more than 200 years before the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Newton was born in 1642 and died in 1726 or 1727.

Albert Einstein was awarded a 1935 Franklin Medal by The Franklin Institute "In recognition of his contributions to theoretical physics, especially his work on Relativity and the Photo-Electric effect."