Einstein was honoured with Nobel Prize for
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Einstein was honoured with Nobel Prize for
- Photoelectric Effect
- Theory of Specific Heats
- Special Theory of Relativity
- Bose-Einstein Statistics
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A - Photoelectric Effect
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921 “especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”. Relativity, though his best-known work, was not the ground of the award, and Bose-Einstein statistics and specific heats were not cited either.
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