Why did not Albert Eisnstein Get the Nobel Prize For the Theory of Relativity?
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Actually, he got the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which showed light to be a particle.  That more or less ushered in most of modern physics...
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It is exactly that question that inspired Einstein to formulate his theory that nothing can ever travel faster than light. I am not saying the Einstein had a goal to make a theory saying nothing can travel faster than light. I am saying that the question made him think about how to explain what would happen in such a case and then the math lead him to a theory of motion in general which says nothing can travel faster than light.
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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!
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Einstein's work laid the theoretical groundwork for a nuclear fission bomb, although it was actually the work of other scientists such as Teller, Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard who actually did the technical work to achieve a working bomb.\n\nEinstein proposed the idea of a nuclear bomb to President Roosevelt. Copies of his letters can be found here:\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml\n\nNew evidence suggests that a number of scientists (most of Jewish origin) working on the fission bomb would not have developed the weapon had they known before-hand that the intended target would actually be Japan and not Germany. Einstein regretted his letters to Roosevelt after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, feeling they were the biggest mistakes of his life.
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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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I think it is Albert Einstein... Einstein stated The Theory of Relativity, breaking down Isaac Newton's The laws of Three Motions and Theory of Gravitation, demonstrated that Newton's theories were only partially right. What is more, scientists believe that there will need more than 200 years for another "Einstein" be born in this world to help the innovation of Physics. Current Mathematics is not adequate for solving Physical problems any more.
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IT WOLD BE GREAT IF WE COULD GET EINSTEIN BACK TO WORK ON IT.EINSTEIN SAID IT WOULD WORK,AND WE HAVE NO OTHER BRAIN CLOSE TO HIS.I BELIEVE IF HE WOULD HAVE LIVED LONGER HE COULD HAVE SOLVED IT.THEN AGAIN IT MAY TAKE ANOTHER COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS,LIKE IT DID BETWEEN NEWTON AND EINSTEIN.MINDS LIKE THEIRS ONLY SHOW UP RARELY.
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Not to beat a dead horse, but it's Edward Witten.  The reason why though is because he was able to unify the several flavors of string theory into, one mathematically stable, unifying theory.  It suggests some pretty "out there" ideas, and its called M Theory.\n\nAlso, I noticed that somebody suggested that it took several scientists to match the power of Einstein's intellect.  However, Einstein did very little to establish laws for the very small, which was governed by Quantum Mechanics, a theory that he very much disliked.  Yet Quantum Mechanics has accurately described the very small for years over years.  So I wouldn't call Einstein irreplaceable.
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Space would have be the absolute reference. Since according to Relativity that reference does not exist than there is no way of determining any parameter.\nTo Answer that you ahave to go outside relativity theory where an absolute frame of reference is found.
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Others, especially Stephens Hawkins, described black holes.  Albert Einstein proposed the theories of relativity that astronomers used to better describe the Universe, including black holes.  So far most scientists still believe that Einstein's theories are correct.  They have been shown to predict how the gravitational forces of a massive star can bend nearby space to such an extreme that light attempting to leave will fall back much as a tennis ball you throw into the air will return to Earth.  Since all light near the star's event horizon falls into it and none can escape, we can not see it and we call it a "black hole."  Astronomers can detect black holes by recording their influence on nearby stars or light passing by on its way to us that has not been captured.  Actually, Einstein's therories were proved in part by the influence on light passing by our own Sun.
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So little known?? I've seen television shows about him, read numerous articles in mainstream periodicals, learned about him in many of my college courses...I don't know why you think he is little known-other than the fact that very few of the great physicists are well known by the general public, except for Einstein and Hawking, and maybe Curie.
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Roger D. Kornberg got it for chemistry. There is no Nobel prize for biology.
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http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1935/chadwick-bio.html
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There are actually two parts to the "theory of relativity".\n\nThe General and the Special Relativity.\nGeneral relativity was developed by Einstein in the years 1911 - 1915. General relativity is a geometrical theory which postulates that the presence of matter "curves" spacetime, and this curvature affects the path of free particles (and even the path of light). It uses the mathematics of differential geometry and tensors in order to describe gravitation without the use of the force of gravity. This theory considers all observers to be equivalent, not only those moving with uniform speed.\n\nAlbert Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" introduced the special theory of relativity. Special relativity considers that observers in inertial reference frames, which are in uniform motion relative to one another, cannot perform any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary". This is known as the principle of relativity. While this principle was not new to Albert Einstein's work, he found that including electromagnetism in this principle required a new formalism with many surprising consequences. In particular, it required the speed of light in a vacuum to be the same for all these observers, regardless of their motion or the motion of the source of the light.\n\nOne of the strengths of special relativity is that it can be derived from only two premises:\n\n    * The laws of physics are the same in any inertial frame of reference. This means that the laws of physics observed by a hypothetical observer traveling with a relativistic particle must be the same as those observed by an observer who is stationary in the laboratory.\n    * The speed of light in a vacuum is constant (specifically, 299,792,458 meters per second).
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SIR elbert einsten because he is the great scietist of history. his theory of relativity is very exellent . when this world lost after some lack year then then this theory help us because in the future scientist go on new world in the space.these all thing posible when einstien theory says\nthat  for example a man  (age=18)who live on earth and one who(age=18) which goes in the universe with the speed of light after 50 years the age of man which who live on earth his age 65 year. and one which goes in the universe with speed of light his age is 35 years. tell me which scientist is genius.
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Hands down, it's Albert Einstein, because his intellect was so far ranging that we are, to this day, still discovering facets of his theories and proving him right, yet again! His mind was so far beyond his contemporaries that it has always been difficult to find scientists who could follow his teachings. He was brilliant beyond belief!
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Simple Relativity\n\nAlbert Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" introduced the special theory of relativity. Special relativity considers that observers in inertial reference frames, which are in uniform motion relative to one another, cannot perform any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary". This is known as the principle of relativity. While this principle was not new to Albert Einstein's work, he found that including electromagnetism in this principle required a new formalism with many surprising consequences. In particular, it required the speed of light in a vacuum to be the same for all these observers, regardless of their motion or the motion of the source of the light.\n\nOne of the strengths of special relativity is that it can be derived from only two premises (although Albert Einstein did not derive it this way):\n\nThe speed of light in a vacuum is constant (specifically, 299,792,458 meters per second). \nThe laws of physics are the same in any inertial frame of reference. This means that the laws of physics observed by a hypothetical observer traveling with a relativistic particle must be the same as those observed by an observer who is stationary in the laboratory. \n\nGeneral relativity\n\nGeneral relativity was developed by Einstein in the years 1911 - 1915. General relativity is a geometrical theory which postulates that the presence of mass and energy "curves" spacetime, and this curvature affects the path of free particles (and even the path of light). It uses the mathematics of differential geometry and tensors in order to describe gravitation without the use of the force of gravity. This theory considers all observers to be equivalent, not only those moving with uniform speed.