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General Relativity in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at General Relativity in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in General Relativity

1917

1917
Cosmological Constant Introduced
Albert Einstein · Astronomy

Einstein adds the cosmological constant to his gravitational field equations to permit a static universe, creating the mathematical term later associated with dark energy.

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