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The incredibly strange story of Einstein's Nobel prize

Popular Physics 2023-01-05 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

It is well-known that Einstein got the 1921 Nobel prize not for his theory of relativity, but for his theory of photoelectricity. It is not that well-known that he did not get the prize in 1921. Why not, and when did he get it?

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@article{arxiv.2112.13519,
  title  = {The incredibly strange story of Einstein's Nobel prize},
  author = {Palash B. Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13519},
  year   = {2023}
}

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