engaging in a lively dialogue with Digital Einstein as they explore his groundbreaking ideas—including his Nobel Prize-winning work on the photoelectric effect. The photos showcase moments where the ...

Five years later, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Owing to death threats, the renowned physicist had to leave Germany temporarily in October 1922; Max von Laue took over as ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and the most recent installment is here. This year's U.S. winners include Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, two University of Pennsylvania ...

from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa. But two winners refused their Nobel Prizes: French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, who turned down the literature prize in 1964, and Vietnamese politician Le Duc ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded every year to up to three scientists who have made significant contributions to the field. Selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, laureates have ...

This was the first use of the theory outside of Planck's own work. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in physics for this paper. Last and perhaps most famous, Einstein published his special theory ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...

Those sci-fi ripples in the space-time continuum? They do exist—and a team of 1,000 helped 3 physicists prove Einstein's General Theory of Relativity right.

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, best known for his mass-energy equivalence formula (E = mc 2) and his development of the theory of relativity. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in ...