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外文原文二 Photoelectric Sensing Photoelectrics: The Past Albert Einstein first gave momentum to photoelectric science when he published his Nobel Prize winning paper on quanta in 1905. His theory explained the photoelectric effect, which had been observed but not fully explained by scientists for many years. It was a bold proposition that light energy travels through space in concentrated bundles (now called photons). Photons that strike a material (especially a metal surface) liberate photoelectrons, and the energy from those photoelectrons may be used to create current flow. Careful experiments