More general relativity to the photoelectric effect and statistical ... and momentum must both be conserved, to derive Einstein's most famous equation: E = mc^2. When the photon strikes the ...

Thompson found that the electromagnetic mass of the electron is given by m = (4/3) E/c 2, which is surprisingly close to Einstein's equation. Thompson's derivation was rather cumbersome ...

In this period (1913–1923), there was simply no convincing explanation of the photoelectric ... and what is derived." He ...

This was not just unexpected but it also challenged one of the crucial principles of Einstein’s special relativity ... has led them to a new way to derive E=mc 2 in physics.

Albert Einstein was perhaps even more well known in his time for his work to understand the photoelectric effect. In fact, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, the honor was ...

Within a decade Robert Millikan had verified, experimentally, the equation that Einstein had used to describe the photoelectric effect. The idea that Einstein described in 1905—that won the ...