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Switzerland in 1907

Historical records for Switzerland in 1907, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

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4Events
2Named people
1Places
3Categories

Historical records

January

1 January 1907President of SwitzerlandEduard Müller

Bern · Government / Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

Other Events

1907Equivalence PrincipleAlbert Einstein

Bern · Science / Physics

Formulates the equivalence principle, a decisive step toward a relativistic theory of gravitation.

1907Gravitational RedshiftAlbert Einstein

Bern · Science / Astronomy

Predicts that gravity should shift the frequency of light, later called gravitational redshift.

1907Quantum Theory of Specific HeatAlbert Einstein

Bern · Science / Physics

Applies quantum ideas to the specific heat of solids, an early success of quantum theory.

Names involved

Albert EinsteinEduard Müller

Places involved

Bern

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.