Daniel Kennefick

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No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity Daniel Kennefick
The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity
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Einstein Was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves
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An Einstein Encyclopedia Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick, and Robert Schulmann
The complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Einstein
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Traveling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves Daniel Kennefick
Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetected fluctuations in the shape of...
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 9: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919 - April 1920 Albert Einstein
The present volume, set in the turbulent post-World War I period, finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of starlight by the sun. With the...
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Daniel Kennefick on No Shadow of a Doubt In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century’s most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new er... Read More

Four diagrams of Solar eclipses (1711) by Johannes Buno

Getting outside when day turns to night What’s the best way to commemorate a historic scientific experiment? Centenaries are popular, and one of the biggest is upcoming, the centenary of the 1919 eclipse observations that confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Read More