A golden age of general relativity? Some remarks on the history of general relativity

@article{Goenner2016AGA,
  title={A golden age of general relativity? Some remarks on the history of general relativity},
  author={Hubert F. M. Goenner},
  journal={General Relativity and Gravitation},
  year={2016},
  volume={49},
  pages={1-16}
}
  • H. Goenner
  • Published 12 July 2016
  • Physics
  • General Relativity and Gravitation
This article deals with the concepts “renaissance” and “low water mark between 1925 and 1955” of general relativity suggested in the literature. By empirical data, it is shown that no such period did exist. Research on general relativity continued continuously since the 1920s interrupted only by the second world war. On a broad scale, research on general relativity started only after 1945. 
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