CLASS 9
A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND
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Question
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Einstein won the Nobel Prize for this:
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Theory of Relativity
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Photoelectric Effect
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Theory of gravity
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Theory of time and space
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Albert Einstein never won a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity-in fact, it was only through long, political jockeying within the Nobel committee that he won the prize at all.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.”
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1905 Einstein discovered the special theory of relativity, establishing the famous dictum that nothing-no object or signal-can travel faster than the speed of light.
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