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Revised Solar Light-Bending Value

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1915

Albert EinsteinNovember 1915

Berlin · Science / Astronomy

Using the completed theory, obtains the full gravitational deflection predicted for starlight grazing the Sun, approximately twice his earlier 1911 estimate.

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Albert Einstein

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