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| Title: | The Portuguese Academic Community and the Theory of Relativity |
| Authors: | Fitas, Augusto José dos Santos |
| Keywords: | História da Ciência e |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Citation: | Fitas, Augusto José dos Santos. The Portuguese Academic Community and the Theory of Relativity, e-Journal of Portuguese History , 3, 2, 1-15, 2005. |
| Abstract: | The theory of relativity was a scientific subject that interested a small number of
Portuguese scientists in the first decades of the twentieth century. Portugal was associated
with the observational confirmation of general relativity ─ observations of the solar eclipse
were carried out on the island of Príncipe; however, no Portuguese astronomers took part
in the scientific expedition. International seminars, led by foreign scientists and held in
Portugal at the beginning of the 1920s and 1930s, were important. A few Portuguese
mathematicians, rather than physicists, were first attracted to this theory and the few
academic papers dealing with it were published abroad by two members of this group. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/3801 |
| ISSN: | 1645-6432 |
| Type: | article |
| Appears in Collections: | CEHFC - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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