Should Einstein have won more than one Nobel Prize?

In 1910, he was first nominated for the Prize and was nominated many times subsequently, usually by multiple physicists, until he finally won the 1921 Prize (awarded in 1922). read more

I would have given him a solo Nobel prize for General Relativity, and a separate solo Nobel prize for predicting photons. You could make the following cases for a shared Nobel: 1. Einstein and Perrin 1909 for Brownian motion theory and experiment 2. Einstein, Poincare, and Lorentz for special relativity. 3. read more

By A. Douglas Stone Albert Einstein never cared too much about receiving awards and honors (or even birthdays, since Pi Day is this week), and that included the Nobel Prizes, which were established in 1901, at roughly the same time as Einstein was beginning his research career in physics. read more

Albert Einstein never won a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity—in fact, it was only through long, political jockeying within the Nobel committee that he won the prize at all. Instead, when he was given the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics (in 1922, after a long bout of internal Nobel hand-wringing), he received it primarily for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. read more