Einstein showed that the __________ could be explained if photons carried quantized amounts of energy.
A) warping of space and time
B) Heisenberg uncertainty principle
C) photoelectric effect
D) theory of special relativity

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Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, which showed that photons carried quantized amounts of energy, and that the energy of a single photon was proportional to its frequency.

Einstein Showed That the __________ Could Be Explained If Photons