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Relativity, Theory of

France · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1898–1905Date range
1Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1898

Henri Poincare1898

Paris · Science / Physics

Poincare discusses the conventional nature of simultaneity and the synchronization of distant clocks

1904

Henri Poincare24 September 1904

St Louis · Science / Physics

Poincare states a principle of relativity in a lecture on the future of mathematical physics

1905

Henri Poincare1905

Paris · Science / Physics

Poincare publishes work on the dynamics of the electron using Lorentz transformations and relativistic ideas

Names involved

Henri Poincare

Provenance

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