Did Albert Einstein win a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity? What did he win it for?
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No, not for his Theory of Relativity. In 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". This refers to his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect: "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light", which was well supported by the experimental evidence by that time
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The Nobel Prize was won in 1921 "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
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no
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I kept trying to post this as a comment on another answer. However, for some reason, AB is not letting me post a comment on this page. So, here is the Nobel Foundation's official web page on Einstein (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/index.html).
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