Question

Einstein was honoured with Nobel Prize for
1. Photoelectric Effect
2. Theory of Specific Heats
3. Special Theory of Relativity
4. Bose-Einstein Statistics

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Photoelectric Effect

The correct answer is ​Photoelectric Effect.

• The Nobel Prize in physics in 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein for his services to theoretical physics.

• He is especially credited for the discovery of the law of the Photoelectric effect.
• He is a well-known German-born physicist and is regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time.
• He is known for developing the theory of relativity which is among the most important developments for the theory of quantum mechanics.
• Other contributions to his name are mass-energy equivalence, Planck Einstein relation, Theory of Specific Heats, theory of Brownian motion, Bose-Einstein Statistics, gravitational waves, etc.
• He was born in 1879 in Germany and died in 1955.