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olinto de pretto

DateThursday, November 23, 2006 at 07:07AM

Most people are familiar with the equation E=mc2. Few know who discovered it. Amazingly, it wasn't Albert Einstein, but today's great Italian, Olinto De Pretto (1857 - 1921), an industrialist and amateur geologist and physicist from Vicenza. Here is De Pretto's bio, and here and here are articles about his discovery. Ciao for now!

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