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Insofar as the committee endorses specific discoveries (Nobel's criterion was for conferring the greatest benefit on mankind), it notably did not endorse relativity in awarding the 1921 prize to Einstein, either. It has been argued that this was due to the indirect influence of Henri Bergson's philosophical- and intuition-based objections.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/this-philosopher-helped...

The committe went so far as delaying the award until 1922, saying, in 1921, that none of the candidates that year had met their standards.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/




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