Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics for leading the projects that discovered gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory.

Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist who unlocked ... for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, was a pivotal moment in the development of quantum theory.

In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated.

In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein ... had also hinted to Einstein that he would be awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but Einstein had declined to change his plans.

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers ... physics and the idea that eventually won him the Nobel Prize. A fourth paper introduced special relativity ...