Neuro
12th March 2013, 03:34 PM
This is very interesting:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/12/introducing-the-quantum-refrigerator-the-coolest-cool-tech/#more-81950
Just to be clear: Einstein did not win a Nobel for the Theory of Relativity. As the Nobel.org site states
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922. During the selection process in 1921, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation’s statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Albert Einstein therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/
What happened was that in 1921, the Nobel Committee announced that it was going to award Einstein a Nobel for the Theory of Relativity. There was such an uproar from reputable scientists and institutions in Europe calling it false and accusing Einstein of plagiarism that the Nobel Foundation was forced to recall the reason for the prize, and find something else to give him a prize for; hence, his “services to Theoretical Physics” and the “law of the photoelectric effect.”
The Times of London has the detail in its archives—it’s voluminous over the year—but it’s behind a paywall now. The American press ignored it, so we still believe it, and I guess the worker bees at Wikipedia are hard at work promoting the myth.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/12/introducing-the-quantum-refrigerator-the-coolest-cool-tech/#more-81950
Just to be clear: Einstein did not win a Nobel for the Theory of Relativity. As the Nobel.org site states
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922. During the selection process in 1921, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation’s statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Albert Einstein therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/
What happened was that in 1921, the Nobel Committee announced that it was going to award Einstein a Nobel for the Theory of Relativity. There was such an uproar from reputable scientists and institutions in Europe calling it false and accusing Einstein of plagiarism that the Nobel Foundation was forced to recall the reason for the prize, and find something else to give him a prize for; hence, his “services to Theoretical Physics” and the “law of the photoelectric effect.”
The Times of London has the detail in its archives—it’s voluminous over the year—but it’s behind a paywall now. The American press ignored it, so we still believe it, and I guess the worker bees at Wikipedia are hard at work promoting the myth.