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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The award recognized his services to theoretical physics, especially the law of the photoelectric effect.
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4 public itemsAlbert Einstein
Theoretical physicist
PHOTO: Ferdinand Schmutzer / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain ↗Reworked how physics describes light, motion, space, time, and gravity.
What Albert got done.
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Published the general theory of relativity.
He extended relativity into a new description of gravitation.
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Published four landmark papers in a single year.
The papers addressed the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and mass–energy equivalence.
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Explained the photoelectric effect using light quanta.
The work helped establish the photon theory of light and later formed the specific basis of his Nobel Prize.