More than 100 years on after Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize, some confusion remains around the committee’s reasons for omitting relativity.
Robert Friedman
Robert Marc Friedman is professor emeritus of history of science at University of Oslo and Tetelman Fellow, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. He remains engaged with several research and public-outreach projects. His many publications on the history of the Nobel science prizes include “Nobel physics prize in perspective,” Nature (1981), The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science (2001), and the theatre play, “Remembering Miss Meitner” (2002).