Einstein
Albert Einstein
Science and theory in the early 20th century?.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread... I am not about to suggest that I know a flaw in any theory, let alone those of Einstein. They don't call him an 'Einstein' for nothin'. But scientists do point out that Einstein's equations apparently break down at what we would call today a singularity. It seems too that for this and other reasons, Quantum Theory may one day supplant Relativity. It was once thought that Relativity and Quantum Theory could not co-exist; there are now some possibilities that they can be reconciled. Whether or not the theories of Relativity are proven wrong, they were central to an amazing burst of insight on the part of many great scientists in the early decades of the 20th century.
brownian motion was accepted early on, but his special and general theories of relativity, and his theory regarding quanta took longer to be accepted by all.
The Chromosome Theory Of Inheritance
the chromosome theory of inheritance
Conflicts with the melting pot theory
Conflicts with the "melting pot" theory
Conflicts with the "melting pot" theory
The theory for the movement of the continents is called "continental drift." It was developed by Alfred Wegener in the early 20th century and later evolved into the theory of plate tectonics.
because they were smart
There were some doubters because Einstein was not well known, but the sheer elegance of his relativity theories and the acceptance by some great physicists made his work generally accepted quite early. His 1921 Nobel Prize (for the Photoelectric Effect work) made him as popular as a rockstar.