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At the time, the consensus opinion of Einstien's special relativity theory was that it was wrong. The Nobel committee gave him the prize for Brownian Motion, n
by anonymousiam 7y ago
At the time, the consensus opinion of Einstien's special relativity theory was that it was wrong. The Nobel committee gave him the prize for Brownian Motion, not relativity.
Galileo also went against the "consensus opinion" when he supported Copernicus’s heliocentric theory.
I knew this was a AGW piece when I read the headline.
- Isinlor 7y ago"The Nobel committee gave him the prize for Brownian Motion" This is not true. 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." Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/ Einstein explanation of Brownian motion served as convincing evidence that atoms and molecules exist and was further verified experimentally by Jean Perrin in 1908. Perrin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter". Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1926/perrin/lecture/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1926/perrin/lectur...