Wave history

In 1901, Jonathan Zenneck— remembered now as an important radio pioneer—wrote an article on gravitation for a German encyclopedia.

With his publication of the special theory of relativity in 1905, Einstein completed Maxwell’s unification of electricity and magnetism by showing that the two fields were really one.

In 1907, he realized that there is no experimental way to distinguish an acceleration due to motion from an acceleration due to a gravitational field.

In a 1911 paper, Einstein took the first steps in that direction by using equivalence to demonstrate that photons must gain energy as they fall toward a gravitating body and lose energy as they climb away from it.

In 1912, Abraham published a theory of gravity in which he modified special relativity (somewhat inconsistently) to include a variable speed of light along the lines Einstein had proposed.

Einstein—not yet world-famous, but already a towering figure in physics—gave short shrift to Abraham and failed to mention Mie at all in a 1913 lecture, “On the Present State of the Problem of Gravitation,” presented at the 85th Naturforscherversammlung (Congress of Natural Philosophers) in Vienna.

In his 1918 paper, Einstein credits Nordström with putting him on the right track.

She took a civil pilot’s license in 1928 and soon joined the navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics.

WAVES, acronym of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, military unit, established on July 30, 1942, as the United States Navy’s corps of female members.

She was appointed assistant chief for women of the Bureau of Personnel and continued as ex officio director of the WAVES until her retirement in June 1953.

American physicist Howard P. Robertson soon corrected the error, but Einstein’s lingering skepticism toward gravitational waves largely impeded research in the field until after his death in 1955.

Founded in 2007 by Chef Michel Nischan, the late Gus Schumacher, and the late Michael Batterberry, Wholesome Wave was created to address diet-related diseases by helping low-income Americans buy and eat healthy fruits and vegetables.

He joined Mastercard in 2012 as Chief Executive Officer for Mobile Payment Solutions (MPS) where he was responsible for deploying mobile solutions in Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Indonesia, Philippines, India and Turkey.

The strongest gravitational disturbance yet detected—which also happened to be that first one, celebrated in 2016—was so slight that it displaced the mirrors at LIGO by just one ten-thousandth of the diameter of an atomic nucleus.

The August 2017, observation of near-simultaneous gravitational and gamma-ray signals from a pair of colliding neutron stars 130 million light years away proved that, as expected, gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light.

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