Letters: A world in desperate need Nov 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009. To President Obama: How many voices must cry out before you act to address the climate crisis. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
The Nobel Science prizes: Winning ways Oct 9, 2009
They discovered how to use the photoelectric effect, in which a photon of light knocks an electron out of its orbital around an atom, to make devices that, if laid out in an array, could record an image. Since each photon landing on a CCD knocks just one electron free, the number of electrons reflects the amount of light in that part of the image. (The Economist)
Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to "Masters of Light" Oct 7, 2009
This phenomenon, called the photoelectric effect, was first theorized by Albert Einstein, earning him the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics. "We are the ones, I guess, who started this whole profusion of little cameras all over the world," Boyle said in a live online video this morning a technology his Nobel Prize-winning physics discoveries helped make possible. (National Geographic)
3 Americans Share 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Oct 7, 2009
It said that technology builds on Albert Einstein's discovery of the photoelectric effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel physics prize in 1921. The two men, working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, designed an image sensor that could transform light into a large number of image points, or pixels, in a short time. (Fox News)
Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin Oct 7, 2009
Group Funded by Italian Atheists, Agnostics Claims Experiment "Clearly Indicates" Shroud Was Man Made. In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Nobel In Physics: Creators Of Optical Fiber Communication And CCD Image Sensor Oct 7, 2009
The CCD technology makes use of the photoelectric effect, as theorized by Albert Einstein and for which he was awarded the 1921 year s Nobel Prize. By this effect, light is transformed into electric signals. (Science Daily)
Past Nobel Superstars Oct 7, 2009
Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his contributionsespecially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. In 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming was one of 3 men awarded the prize in medicine for the discovery of penicillin. (National Geographic)
> Transcript: Obama addresses Troy crowd Sep 22, 2009
Transcript: Obama addresses Troy community college crowd - The Business Review (Albany). for free extra services. (Albany Business Review, NY)
At The Limits Of The Photoelectric Effect Apr 28, 2009
With the classical photoelectric effect (a), a single light particle (photon) of sufficient energy interacts with a single electron of the material ... A. A. Sorokin et al. Photoelectric effect at ultra-high intensities ... (May 1, 2005) In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his work on relativity, but for solving a puzzle that had baffled scientists since 1887 -- the photoelectric effect. (Science Daily)
Heinrich Hertz Biography Apr 28, 2009
During his experiment on electromagnetic waves, Hertz also accidentally discovered the photoelectric effect in which light falling on special surfaces can generate electricity. Aside from the electromagnetic or electric waves ("Hertzian waves"), Hertz also showed that their velocity and length could be measured and that light and heat are electromagnetic waves. (Suite101.com)
Martin Klein, at 84; editor of Einstein papers collection Apr 5, 2009
His research team dealt with the years during which Einstein moved from his early accomplishments - the theory of special relativity and papers on Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect, which postulated that light behaves as if it were particles as well as waves - to his work on general relativity. General relativity deals with gravity and is the basis for conclusions about such colossal phenomena as the Big Bang, the birth and death of stars, black holes, and the expansion of the... (Boston Globe)
Cosmopolitan Club hosts ‘Einstein’ review Mar 10, 2009
His best known theory is the Theory of Relativity, but he was not awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics until 1922 for his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. He left a large body of work and because of his theories we now have computers, lasers, particle accelerators, space travel, an atomic bomb, fiber optics , nuclear reactors and on and on. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
