For his monumental work in transforming our understanding of gravity and spacetime, Albert Einstein won his sole Nobel Prize for something else: explaining the photoelectric effect. In the early 20th ...
In 1905, Albert Einstein showed that the photoelectric effect—the ability of metals to produce an electric current when exposed to light—could be explained if light is quantum, traveling in discrete ...
The photoelectric effect refers to what happens when electrons are emitted from a material that has absorbed electromagnetic radiation. Physicist Albert Einstein was the first to describe the effect ...
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