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This is Albert. And here’s President Harding.
Albert during his tour of the United States, with President
Warren G. Harding at the White House, Washington, D.C.
In 1921, Albert was told that he had
been selected for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
He was given the prize for his general
contributions to theoretical physics, but
specifically for his work on the “photoelectric
effect.” The photoelectric effect occurs when
light strikes a surface (usually metal) at a certain
frequency so that it causes electrons to be
released from that surface. Albert wrote about
this in his first “miracle year” paper in 1905.
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