Brian, You are correct. Einstein's Nobel Prize was indeed for the photoelectric effect while he is most famous for his papers on relativity. In 1905 he wrote three papers: One on the photoelectric effect One on Special Relativity and One on Brownian motion. In 1915 he published his work on General Relativity. In 1921 he received his Nobel Prize in physics for his work with the Photoelectric effect. Jeff At 11:38 -0700 10/24/05, Brian Skiff wrote: >>> ...that resulted in Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. > > I'm pretty sure, though perhaps Professor Psaltis could confirm, >that Einstein's Nobel was for the photoelectric effect, and not >for the relativity papers. > Whereas relativity hardly impinges on my daily life, I make use >of the photoelectric effect almost constantly (vision, computer monitors, >CCDs...). > >\Brian -- Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html Hopkins Phoenix Observatory 7812 West Clayton Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. www.hposoft.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.