Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Historical records for Switzerland in 1907, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Formulates the equivalence principle, a decisive step toward a relativistic theory of gravitation.
Predicts that gravity should shift the frequency of light, later called gravitational redshift.
Applies quantum ideas to the specific heat of solids, an early success of quantum theory.
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