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====His notoriety====
====His notoriety====
While most [[science]] historians{{fact}} would claim that [[Isaac Newton]] was arguably the greatest scientist in [[history]], Albert Einstein is surely the most widely recognized scientist in the modern world--no captions are needed on his photographs, and practically every adult in the world immediately recognizes him.
While there have been many other great scientists, Albert Einstein is surely the most widely recognized scientist in the modern world--no captions are needed on his photographs, and practically every adult in the world immediately recognizes him.
He received the [[Nobel Prize]] in 1921 "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/</ref>.
He received the [[Nobel Prize]] in 1921 "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/</ref>.