03563nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-51387-9 DE-He213 20251030111820.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240416s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031513879 978-3-031-51387-9 10.1007/978-3-031-51387-9 doi QC6.9-9 PDX bicssc PH bicssc SCI055000 bisacsh PDX thema PH thema Ginoux, Jean-Marc. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75232 Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity [electronic resource] : An End to the Controversy / by Jean-Marc Ginoux. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XV, 143 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda History of Physics, 2730-7557 Introduction -- From Luminiferous Ether to the Earth's Motion -- Principle of Relativity -- Towards a New Transformation -- Poincaré's New Mechanics -- Poincaré's Note and Memoir -- Einstein's Article of 1905 -- Poincaré's Hypothesis and Results vs. Einstein's -- The Reception of the Special Relativity in Europe -- The Race for the Nobel Prize -- Conclusion. 1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this theory on his own, overcoming all the difficulties that the greatest scientists of his time had not been able to solve. However, some have pointed out that, before Einstein’s first publication in this field, the French mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré had obtained the same results, which he had published several months before Einstein. Yet today, this theory is known as Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Thus, considering the indisputable anteriority of Poincaré’s contributions, there is only one real question that needs to be answered: Why didn’t Poincaré claim the authorship of special theory of relativity? After recapping on the ideas and concepts of the special theory of relativity in a manner accessible to non-specialists and recalling the historical context of the discovery of this theory, we will answer this question and thus put finally an end to this long-running controversy. Physics History. 64549 Special relativity (Physics). 69493 Science History. 65232 History of Physics and Astronomy. 68040 Special Relativity. 69496 History of Science. 66101 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031513862 Printed edition: 9783031513886 Printed edition: 9783031513893 History of Physics, 2730-7557 72777 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51387-9 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 59151 59151