03367nam a22005175i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001200172072001600184072001500200072002300215072001500238072001400253100008700267245014100354250001800495264006900513300006200582336002600644337002600670338003600696347002400732490003500756505037100791520118001162650002902342650004102371650002902412650004502441650003102486650003102517710003402548773002602582776003602608776003602644776003602680830004202716856004602758912001402804912001402818999001702832978-3-031-51387-9DE-He21320251030111820.0cr nn 008mamaa240416s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315138799978-3-031-51387-97 a10.1007/978-3-031-51387-92doi 4aQC6.9-9 7aPDX2bicssc 7aPH2bicssc 7aSCI0550002bisacsh 7aPDX2thema 7aPH2thema1 aGinoux, Jean-Marc.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97523210aPoincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativityh[electronic resource] :bAn End to the Controversy /cby Jean-Marc Ginoux.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXV, 143 p. 8 illus., 5 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aHistory of Physics,x2730-75570 aIntroduction -- 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.  a1905 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. 0aPhysicsxHistory.964549 0aSpecial relativity (Physics).969493 0aSciencexHistory.96523214aHistory of Physics and Astronomy.96804024aSpecial Relativity.96949624aHistory of Science.9661012 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303151386208iPrinted edition:z978303151388608iPrinted edition:z9783031513893 0aHistory of Physics,x2730-755797277740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51387-9  aZDB-2-PHA  aZDB-2-SXP  c59151d59151