President of Switzerland
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
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1913 in Switzerland
Explore 7 historical events and records for Switzerland in 1913.
Historical records for Switzerland in 1913
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Einstein-Besso Mercury Perihelion Attempt
Einstein and Michele Besso calculated Mercury's anomalous perihelion motion with the provisional gravitational theory, creating a detailed test that the Entwurf equations failed to reproduce correctly.
Entwurf Field Equations Proposed
The Entwurf collaboration introduced provisional field equations intended to connect the spacetime metric with matter, giving Einstein a concrete but still incomplete relativistic theory of gravitation.
Entwurf Theory Links Metric to Matter
Einstein's developing theory treated the metric field as physically determined by matter and energy, moving the gravitational problem toward the geometry-source relationship later embodied in his final equations.
Entwurf Theory Published with Grossmann
Einstein and Marcel Grossmann published the Entwurf theory, an intermediate gravitational framework that used tensor methods but did not yet possess the full general covariance of general relativity.
Hole Argument Used Against General Covariance
Einstein developed the hole argument as a reason to distrust unrestricted general covariance, a position he later abandoned when completing general relativity in 1915.
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the linkage of atoms in molecules, especially inorganic compounds.
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