Re:Reductionist history (Score 5, Informative)

Albert Einstein didn't get the Nobel Prize for his work on relativity. By 1921 that was still in dispute, not established science. He got it for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect -- and to some lesser extent for his model describing the kinetics of Brownian motion.

www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1921/index.html
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1921/press.html