Tag: einstein, physics, science

Einstein’s paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905, and Einstein has another paper in the very same journal where it appeared – his other paper was the one that formulated the special theory of relativity. That’s what it was like to be Einstein in 1905; you publish a groundbreaking paper that helps lay the foundation of quantum mechanics, and for which you later win the Nobel Prize, but it’s only the second most important paper that you publish in that issue of the journal.