Assertion: relativity | /r/HasProperty | controversial
Facets:
value: unfortunately
type: DEGREE
value: because of the difficulty
type: CAUSE
value: for a number of years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Unfortunately, relativity was so controversial then, and remained controversial for such a long time that a Nobel prize was never awarded for it.
text: Relativity was controversial for a number of years, in part because of the difficulty in using the technology available at the time to devise an experiment capable of decisive confirmation of relativity, and also because many people were reluctant to move away from Newtonian physics (which, after all, had worked for centuries).
text: Unfortunately, relativity was so controversial then, and remained controversial for such a long time that a Nobel prize was never awarded for it.