We are writing what will function as chapters in a history book of the topic "Nobel Prize Winning Science Deniers".  This book will be used as a text in a general education science course that seeks to identify the reasons that even the most knowledgeable people in science can allow personal bias to influence their thoughts and cause them to make scientific mistakes.  We hope to learn to avoid those pitfalls in our own thought.  Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists in the early twentieth century. He developed the theory of relativity, and won the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, specifically that light travels in small pockets, called quanta or photons. However, Einstein was unable to fully understand the idea that all energy travels in quanta, particularly because the mathematics in quantum mechanics required an observer to force reality. Einstein believed that all of physics was deterministic and any proper theory should be able to account for all measurable phenomena, and this disagreed with the math of quantum mechanics.

Nobel-prize-winning science deniers: Albert Einstein

2019 Spring National Meeting

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