On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:35:48 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>The "corpuscularian hypothesis" (that,a s
> we say, there are atoms) was simply a hypothesis that
> needed to be made to make sense of lots of other stuff
> until Einstein proved that it could be tested in his
> Brownian motion paper, the one that won him the Nobel
> Prize.
I beleive that Einstein waon the Nobel Prize for his paper on the photoelectric effect, in which he vindicated Max Planck's quantum hypothesis concerning electromagnetic radiation. In reality of course, the Nobel Committee was really rewarding Einstein for his work on relativity, but relativity was still too controversial at the time, and the Nobel Committee (then as now) preferred to give prizes for either experimental work, or for theoretical work that directly made sense out of experimental findings, which is why Stephen Hawking, for instance, will probably never win a Nobel Prize.
Jim F.
>the theory of evolution is obviosuly not
> subject to direct test. Both views have empirical
> consequences, but pre-Einsteina atomism and
> evolutionary theory gain much of their conformation
> from the work they do in organizing other things that
> we can observe more directly.
>
> jks
>
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