Chapter Traveling towards fame: Albert Einstein and the Eddington eclipse expedition to Príncipe and Sobral in 1919
Albert Einstein abruptly rose to worldwide fame in November 1919, after Arthur Eddington announced the successful measurement of the gravitational light bending predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. The measurement had been performed by an expedition towards two remote Portugues...
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2021
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| Series: | Studi e saggi
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