What historical conflict is E.T. Whittaker known to have an influence in?
The Cold War
The relativity priority dispute
The Vietnam War
None
Answer
The relativity priority dispute refers to the controversy between Albert Einstein and E.T. Whittaker over which physicist should receive credit for the development of Theory of relativity. Whittaker claimed in a paper published in 1910 that he had predicted the existence of gravitational waves before Einstein, and that Einstein had plagiarized his theory.
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