E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis · 25 May 2009 · 349pp · 27,507 words
out those adjacent daytime stars. But during an eclipse? Every hero needs an assistant. Moses had Aaron. Jesus had his disciples. Einstein, alas, got Freundlich. Erwin Freundlich was a junior assistant at the Royal Prussian Observatory in Berlin. I wouldn’t say he had the worst luck of any individual I’ve
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of the earth—the Arabian Sea, Cambridge, and Chicago included—in its mission, and it is called the chandr a x-r ay observatory. Although erwin freundlich missed out on the 1919 eclipse expedition, his spirits recovered when industrialists in the new Weimar Republic donated large funds to build a great astronomical
Big Bang
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 2004 · 492pp · 149,259 words
body, then whether it was slight or very slight would determine who was right, Einstein or Newton. As early as 1912, Einstein began collaborating with Erwin Freundlich on how to make the crucial measurement. Whereas Einstein was a theoretical physicist, Freundlich was an accomplished astronomer and therefore in a better position to