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Elementary Mass-Energy Derivation

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1946

Albert Einstein1946

Princeton · Science / Physics

Publishes an elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy, revisiting one of the central physical consequences that emerged from special relativity.

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Albert Einstein

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