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This chapter is included mostly for completeness, because many textbooks already explain special relativity in a deeper and more elegant way.
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Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642, is considered the father of modern scientific method. He taught in Pisa and Padua, Italy.
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Hendrik Lorentz, 1853–1928, was professor in Leiden, the Netherlands. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1902 for the explanation of the Zeeman effect.
Henry Poincaré, France (1854–1912) was a mathematician and theoretical physicist.
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H.A. Lorentz, Simplified Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Systems, in: KNAW, Proceedings, 1, 1898–1899, Amsterdam, 1899, pp. 427–442; “Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity smaller than that of light”, Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 6: 809–831 (1904).
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“Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper”, Annalen der Physik 17: 891 (1905).
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The other particle which we believe to be massless is the gluon, the messenger of the strong force, which is confined within mesons and baryons and cannot travel freely, because of the “colour confinement”.
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After the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, 1864–1909. He taught at Königsberg, Bonn, Göttingen and Zürich, where Einstein was one of his students.
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After Niels Henrik Abel, 1802–1829 Norwegian mathematician. Also, the Abel prize for mathematics is named after him.
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After M. Sophus Lie, (pron. as Lee) 1842–1899, Norwegian mathematician, who taught in Oslo and Leipzig.
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D’Auria, S. (2018). Special Relativity. In: Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93855-4_2
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