Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein delivering his Nobel Lecture to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11 July 1923.
Photo: Anders Wilhelm Karnell Source: Gothenburg Library Archive Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
From left to right: Nobel Laureates Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert A. Millikan and Max von Laue at a dinner given by Professor von Laue in Berlin, 11 November 1931.
Source: Nationaal Archief Photographer unknown Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Three Nobel Laureates in Physics standing in front of the Athenaeum at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1931. Front row from left: Albert A. Michelson, Albert Einstein and Robert A. Millikan.
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Nobel Laureates in Physics Albert Einstein (left) and Niels Bohr (right) walking. Photo taken at the 1930 Solvay Conference in Brussels.
Source: Danish Film Institute Photo: Paul Ehrenfest
The fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, was held in October 1927. Prominent physicists from all the world met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. 17 of the 29 participants were or became Nobel Laureates. Back row, left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin. Middle row, left to right: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr. Front row, left to right: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.
Photo: Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Niels Bohr (left) and Albert Einstein (right). The picture was taken at physicist Paul Ehrenfest's home in Leiden, December 11, 1925.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921.
Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Albert Einstein (left) and Hendrik A. Lorentz (right), outside the home of Paul Ehrenfest, Leiden, 1921.
Source: Museum Boerhaave, Leiden Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Albert Einstein visiting Amsterdam's experimental physicist Pieter Zeeman (left), with his friend Paul Ehrenfest (right), ca 1920.
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Albert Einstein with his wife Elsa.
Source: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection Photographer unknown
Albert Einstein in his office at the University of Berlin, 1920.
Source: "The Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919, and the Einstein Effect, in The Scientific Monthly 10:4 (1920), 418-422, p. 418 Photographer unknown
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.