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Black holes were born
Jeroen van Dongen
In 1939 Albert Einstein wrote a technical article that argued against the possibility that a star can be contracted to a single point: particles making up the star would end up rot…
How Dark Matter Came to Matter
Jaco de Swart, Gianfranco Bertone, Jeroen van Dongen
The history of the dark matter problem can be traced back to at least the 1930s, but it was not until the early 1970s that the issue of 'missing matter' was widely recognized as pr…
Emergence in Holographic Scenarios for Gravity
Dennis Dieks, Jeroen van Dongen, Sebastian de Haro
'Holographic' relations between theories have become an important theme in quantum gravity research. These relations entail that a theory without gravity is equivalent to a gravita…
The reception of relativity in the Netherlands
Jip van Besouw, Jeroen van Dongen
This article reviews the early academic and public reception of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in the Netherlands, particularly after Arthur Eddington's eclipse experiments…
Reactionaries and Einstein's Fame: "German Scientists for the Preservation of Pure Science," Relativity, and the Bad Nauheim Meeting
Jeroen van Dongen
Two important and unpleasant events occurred in Albert Einstein's life in 1920: That August an antirelativity rally was held in the large auditorium of the Berlin Philharmonic, and…
On Einstein's opponents, and other crackpots
Jeroen van Dongen
Essay Review of "Einsteins Gegner. Die öffentliche Kontroverse um die Relativitätstheorie in den 1920er Jahren" by Milena Wazeck.