Relativity

3 lives in this collection worked in relativity, from 1872 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.

Often together with: theoretical physics. All fields

  • Paul Langevin1872–1946

    French physicist who created the Langevin equation and the theory of para- and diamagnetism, framed the twin paradox, pioneered ultrasonic sonar, and led antifascist and educational causes.

    statistical physics, magnetism, relativity

  • Albert Einstein1879–1955

    Creator of special and general relativity, of the light-quantum hypothesis and of the theory of Brownian motion, and founder of relativistic cosmology.

    theoretical physics, relativity, quantum theory

  • Wolfgang Pauli1900–1958

    Discoverer of the exclusion principle, author of the theory of electron spin and the spin–statistics theorem, and proposer of the neutrino.

    theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory