In the shadow of the sun

Ashton Edwards
By Ashton Edwards
Astronomy
In the shadow of the sun

Gravity trough: Because massive bodies like the sun bend space-time, passing light rays are deflected. This effect, postulated by Albert Einstein in 1911, was measured for the first time in 1919. But the sensational discovery was not sufficiently secure for the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm to justify Einstein’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Light and darkness for Einstein's theory of relativity - a lesson in good science.

by RÜDIGER VAAS

It seems amazing that 100 years ago Albert Einstein did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of relativity. Since 1917 he had been nominated for the prize several times and by many colleagues. In 1922 he received it retrospectively for 1921 - albeit for a revolutionary contribution to the beginning of quantum physics from 1905, and rightly so. In 1921 the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm had not been able to bring itself to a decision.

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