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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921

"for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Germany and Switzerland
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik
Berlin, Germany
b. 1879
(in Ulm, Germany)
d. 1955
 
 
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