Amazon Quiz (April 22, 2022): This famous scientist won the Nobel Prize for ___ in 1921. Fill in the blanks

Chemistry

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Answer: Physics

German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, but not for his well-known theory of relativity.

Instead, the physicist was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”

Announcing the decision to award the prize to Einstein in December 1922, Professor S. Arrhenius, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, “There is probably no physicist living today whose name has become so widely known as that of Albert Einstein … Einstein’s law of the photo-electrical effect has been extremely rigorously tested by the American Millikan and his pupils and passed the test brilliantly.”

“Owing to these studies by Einstein the quantum theory has been perfected to a high degree and an extensive literature grew up in this field whereby the extraordinary value of this theory was proved. Einstein’s law has become the basis of quantitative photo-chemistry in the same way as Faraday’s law is the basis of electro-chemistry,” Professor Arrhenius further said, explaining the fundamental implications of Einstein’s law.

Despite more than a century having passed since Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize, the physicist’s contributions to science have stood the test of time: relativity and quantum mechanics today form the two pillars of modern physics.

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