The 100th Anniversary of Einstein's Nobel Prize: Facts and Fiction

As the 100th anniversary approaches of Albert Einstein being awarded a Nobel Prize, questions remain about motivation for prize and absence any specific mention his theory relativity. By revisiting supplementing earlier scholarly studies, it will be shown that “Einstein did not receive, as often claimed, photoelectric effect committee member Allvar Gullstrand's error in comprehending relativity was cause rejecting this strongly nominated achievement.” Rather, their evaluations relativity, “Svante Arrhenius (1920) Gullstrand (1921 & 1922) brought to task bias, if prejudice; they incorporated arguments from German ultranationalist experimental physicists’ politically racially motivated opposition theories gravitation. Only when Carl Wilhelm Oseen joined 1922, he nominated, evaluated, proposed discovery law effect.” The precise wording deliberate silence Einstein's quantum theoretical derivation owes Oseen's insightful understanding challenges facing effort award Prize both Niels Bohr.