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Albert Einstein
Full Name of the recipient | Albert Einstein |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1921 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin, Germany |
Place of Birth | Ulm, Germany DEU |
Date of Birth | 14 March 1879 |
Age at the time of Award | 41 years |
Place of Death | Princeton, NJ, United States USA |
Date of Death | 18 April 1955 |