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Some folks are remembered just for the Nobel. Elias Canetti comes to mind - his only meaningful work was non-fiction, and therefore didn’t qualify. Winston Chu
by pyuser583 4y ago
Some folks are remembered just for the Nobel. Elias Canetti comes to mind - his only meaningful work was non-fiction, and therefore didn’t qualify.
Winston Churchill is the similar … remembered as a political leader, but won the Nobel in Literature, not Peace.
Einsteins Nobel was for Brownian motion, which isn’t what pops to mind when you think “Einstein.”
- kgwgk 4y ago> Einsteins Nobel was for Brownian motion "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"