why did Einstein won Nobel prize?
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because he explane photoelectric effect and start a way throw quantom mechanics by showing that plank was right e=hv
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Because Nobel decided to give only for important discovery in physics, medicine, chemistry, literature and peace. Later there was added another category: economy. This category could be called a nobel prize for math, because most of modern mathematicians deal with problems in economy.
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I had participated in a presentation competition in my college. We made a Powerpoint presentation on Einstein and his theories of relativity. We made it very simple. Go to my site (see link)\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/sudeepjaiswal_2001/ppt.html\n\nOr directly download my presentation\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/sudeepjaiswal_2001/ppt.zip\n\nHope it helps.
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Albert Einstein. \n\nHe was very smart, intuitive, and a humanitarian. All of the things we need today.
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Einstein's IQ was about 160 which is NOT so high , a have friends with higher IQ . it is important but it's not all
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Ede Teller, a Hungarian scientist who immigrated to the US. He died recently. I have almost forgotten to mention that he was awarded a Nobel Prize for peace.
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You should ask this question to Nobel Prize Committee which awards the Nobel Prize.\nOriginal and significant contribution in that field plus luck, will be the key to the success, if we measure the success this way.\nWe know Stephen Hawking through reading his books. His research papers were not as popular as his books. Comparison could be made and someone else might be much more lucky.\nIt is all politic.
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This is a classic example of the strategy followed by Nobel committee in awarding the prize. Theories are not given nobel prize. Experimental proof for validating or invalidating existing theories deserve a better consideration. It is for this he did not get a prize for the the theory of relativity. He did get a prize for experimentally proving phenomenon of photovoltaic emission.
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Yeh, interesting question.  Here is a good response, taken from the Boston Globe:\n\nSort of, but as is so often the case, it's a little more subtle than a simple yes/no answer.\n\nEinstein did receive the Nobel prize in physics in 1921, and the actual citation from the Nobel committee was ''for services to Theoretical Physics, and especially of the law of the photoelectric effect."\n\nDuring 1905 alone Einstein probably made enough scientific leaps to justify three Nobel prizes, writing several papers that would change the world. Certainly the case could be made that he should have had several more for work done afterward, but most people like to think of that year as ''the big one" that made certain he would get a Nobel prize no matter what.\n\nOne 1905 paper dealt with the ''photoelectric effect" and is the work that was clearly cited for the prize. In this work he showed that, although most scientists believed light acted like a wave, one must also at times treat light as being made of little chunks of electromagnetic energy called photons. This was the beginning of the strange subject of quantum mechanics which made it essential to drop many preconceived notions of what made sense in order to really understand how the world worked.\n\nAnother paper of 1905 introduced Einstein's special theory of relativity (special in that it could not deal with acceleration, but only with constant velocity's) and introduced the radical idea of merging space and time into one thing: space-time.\n\nYet another 1905 paper showed that one could infer the existence of atoms -- something still controversial at the time -- by looking at the random motion of grains of pollen in a drop of water.\n\nEinstein kept working to develop his general theory of relativity, which extended the special theory to include acceleration and gravity, but this took a bit of time to get sorted out -- it was published in 1915 and introduced the idea of curved space-time.\n\nThis list of achievements is nowhere near complete, but space restrictions make me stop here.\n\nMany people feel that the Nobel committee wanted to hedge its bets a bit by just picking out just one of the mind-blasting 1905 breakthroughs (which were all still controversial 15 years later) and lumping the rest together as ''Theoretical Physics." Oddly enough, it's the ideas of quantum mechanics, ushered in by the Nobel-cited photoelectric effect paper, that are perhaps the most controversial today!
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First he created dynamite but was afraid his legacy would be the militry use of that would make his legacy one of death.  He began giving Nobel Peace Prizes to insure his legacy would be one of peace.  Perhaps what he teaches is that you can control your own legacy for future generations.
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because, it meant that energy and mass are basically the same thing.  this is pretty contrary to our everyday experience, and in fact it is only a noticeable effect when there are very large energies involved.  so, at the time there was basically no experimental evidence to show that this equation was correct!  nevertheless einstein derived this equation, and the rest of the theory of general relativity, based on mathematical principles alone.  only afterwards were experiments done and he was shown to be right!  \n\nthis is part of the reason einstein is so celebrated as a genius - his correct prediction of the equivalence of energy and mass.
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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html\nhttp://home.pacbell.net/kidwell5/aebio.html\nHere are a bunch
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I wasn't aware that Einstein ever did any significant work in acoustics.\n\nOr do you have acoustic waves confused with electromagnetic waves?\n\n\nDoug
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Albert Einstein was the one who popularized the idea of curved space in his theory of general relativity (if you can call that 'popular').  As part of his theory Einstein assumed that light worked the same in space as it does on Earth, namely that it ALWAYS moves in straight lines.  This was an assumption on his part, but as part of trying to prove his theory (either right or wrong) astronomers photographed stars during a solar eclipse, tracking their motion to see if they were where they were supposed to be as their light grazed past the sun (the most massive object we have nearby).  Sure enough, the star's light wasn't exactly where it was supposed to be.  Think of it this way:  if light ALWAYS moves in a straight line (which it must for the general theory of relativity to work, which it does very well) and we see it curve, then the straight line must be curved.  It's space (along the light beam's path of travel) that comes out as the only element that can curve.  Just one more of the funny implication of living in a universe where everything tugs on everything else.\n\nWhat does it curve into?  Your guess is as good as anybody else's.
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Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist and is one of the most well known scientists of the 20th century. Einstein spent his childhood in Munich where his family owned a electric machinery shop. When he was a child, he showed brilliant curiosity about nature and was able to understand difficult math concepts. As he got older, he led the family to Milan, Italy. There, he finished secondary school , but didn't enjoy the methods of instruction there. He usually cut classes and used the time to study physics or to play his beloved violin.\n\n   In 1933, Einstein moved to America because Einstein was a Jew. While Einstein was visiting England, the Nazi government took his property and sold it. Before this misfortune, Einstein had been invited to the institute of advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. He lived there until he died on April 18, 1955.\n\n~ * ~\nArtturi Ilmari Virtanen - won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945 for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method.\n\n~ * ~\nRhodes is famous for several things. Among them are its schools for philosophy, science, and literature (hence the term "Rhodes Scholar"), and one of the original seven wonders of the world, the "Colossus at Rhodes".\n\nYou should be able to look up images of these, now that you know what you're looking for.
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A whole lot, in 1889 we still didnt have power everywhere. This year the first long distance power lines were run. Einstein hadn't been born yet. Since 1889 some big discoveries were:\n1898- Marie Curie discovered the concept of radioactivity\n1905- Einstein published a paper on special relativity\n1912- Einstein formulated General relativity\n1913- Bohr discovered that electrons orbit around a nucleus in the atom\n1924- Galaxies discovered outside Milky Way\n1926- Quantum Mechanics first formulated\n1927- Heisenberg uncertainty principle\n1929- Discovered Universe is expanding\n1942-1946- Atomic bomb created\n\nThat is just a short list of the many many discoveries we have had since 1889. I hope that helped
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We're not here to do your homework for you, but I don't mind pointing you in the right direction.\n\nStart out by spelling the names correctly - I think you're interested in the contributions of Max Planck and Albert Einstein, not "Walk the" Plank and some other guy I've never heard of named Einstien.\n\nSince both are Nobel Prize winners, a good place to start your research would be with their official biographies at the Nobel Prize homepage - see the links below for those:\n\nYou'll find lots more information at the Wikipedia encyclopedic entry for each of these two famous German-born scientists - I've linked those sites below as well.\n\nRead the bios - then do your own homework!