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Special Relativity

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

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1905

Albert Einstein30 June 1905

Bern · Science / Physics

Submits On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, establishing the special theory of relativity.

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Albert Einstein

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