1. Einstein did not win Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity.
Yes, everyone's favorite patent clerk did win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, but the award specifically cites his paper on the photoelectric effect—one of four papers that Einstein published during his "Year of Wonders" in 1905. The other three papers are on Brownian motion, special relativity, and energy and mass equivalence.
(Bonus trivia: Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity, which specifies the unique breakdown of Newtonian mechanics at velocities near the speed of light, does not contain the famous E=MC2 equation; this appears in the energy and mass equivalence paper. Relativity and E=MC2 are intimately related, but the terms aren't interchangeable.)
Yes, everyone's favorite patent clerk did win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, but the award specifically cites his paper on the photoelectric effect—one of four papers that Einstein published during his "Year of Wonders" in 1905. The other three papers are on Brownian motion, special relativity, and energy and mass equivalence.
(Bonus trivia: Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity, which specifies the unique breakdown of Newtonian mechanics at velocities near the speed of light, does not contain the famous E=MC2 equation; this appears in the energy and mass equivalence paper. Relativity and E=MC2 are intimately related, but the terms aren't interchangeable.)
2. Khadija, the wife of Prophet Mohammad and mother of his six children was renowned as a successful businesswoman
3. Before settling down to become the mother of Martin Luther King’s six children, Katherine Von Bora was a nun.
4. Sonia Gandhi has been described as India's best dressed politican, her trademark cotton handloom sarees being praised by many leading designers.
5. As a journalist, Maneka Gandhi is popular for her shocking publication in Surya Magazine of photos showing sexual intercourse between Suresh Ram (son of the then Defence Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram) and Sushma Chaudhury, a University of Delhi student. Her daring publication of the photos ran the risk of violation of obscenity laws. The revealing pictures were published apparently to discredit Jagjivan Ram, who defected from the Indira Gandhi government and helped bring Janata Party to power in 1977. He was one of the contenders for the post of Prime Minister of India.
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