June 9, 2022, marks 117 years since Einstein published his groundbreaking paper on the photoelectric principle. The analysis was published on June 9, 1905, also known as Einstein’s “miracle year” ...
(Nanowerk News) It is now exactly one hundred years ago that Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. The jury had not yet really understood his ...
Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for a theory that half of the people might not even have heard of. His Theory of ...
When a photon hits a material, it can eject an electron from it provided it has enough energy. Albert Einstein found the theoretical explanation of this phenomenon, which is known as the photoelectric ...
The photoelectric effect is a phenomenon where light knocks electrons out of a material, resulting in the emission of these electrons, called photoelectrons. Albert Einstein explained the ...
Copyright © 2017 by Scott Bembenek, PhD. This excerpt originally appeared in “The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It ...