Nobel Prize controversies research CERN, commented in a scientific meet in Kolkata titled "Frontiers of Science" that "it is unfortunate that pioneering Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose did not win the Nobel Prize for work on quantum physics in the 1920s that provided the foundation of the Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate". Albert Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize Award mainly recognized his 1905 discovery of the mechanism of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics". The Nobel committee passed on several nominations for his many other seminal contributions, although these led to prizes for others who later
William Smythe (physicist) that future Nobel Prize in Economics laureate Vernon Smith switched to electrical engineering from physics to avoid it. Smythe's son, William Rodman Smythe, became a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Smythe died in Boulder, Colorado, on July 6, 1988. William Smythe (physicist) William Ralph Smythe (1893–1988) was a physicist at California Institute of Technology. A native of Canon City, Colorado, he graduated from Colorado College and spent some time in Dartmouth College before his studies were interrupted by World War I. He eventually completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1921 under Nobel laureate