Einstein's Nobel Prize, A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors: The Archival Evidence (Archive of the Nobel Museum)

Einstein's Nobel Prize, A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors: The Archival Evidence (Archive of the Nobel Museum) image
ISBN-10:

0881352837

ISBN-13:

9780881352832

Author(s): Aant Elzinga
Released: Mar 20, 2006
Format: Library Binding, 240 pages
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Description:

How and why, after many years of waiting, did Albert Einstein finally receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921, awarded the following year? On the basis of a penetrating study of documents in the Nobel archive at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the author reviews the sixty nominations Einstein received from 1910 to 1922. He analyses the arguments against relativity theory and the Committee's skepticism...











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