Thursday, November 26, 2015

General relativity’s first century

Exactly 100 years ago today Einstein delivered the lecture to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in which he presented the field equations of general relativity. To celebrate the event, Classical and Quantum Gravity published a Focus Issue identifying key events that occurred during the 100 years following publication of the theory and had an immediate and major impact on the field, informing or spurring ongoing research today.