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Tag Tag Nobel Prize in Physics

Authors

Theoretical physicist · 1879-1955
Albert Einstein

Physicist whose theories of relativity transformed understanding of space, time, gravity and the universe.

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Theoretical physicist · 1918-1988
Richard Feynman

American physicist known for major contributions to quantum electrodynamics and influential approaches to teaching physics.

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Physicist and chemist · 1867-1934
Marie Curie

Pioneering researcher on radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and won two Nobel Prizes.

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Works

Albert Einstein · 1905
On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light

The proposal that light energy travels in discrete quanta rather than continuous waves, and what that explains about the photoelectric effect.

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