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The discovery of the general theory of relativity (GR) has often been justly praised as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of a single human being. At the ceremonial presentation of Hubacher’s bust of Einstein in Zürich, W. Pauli said:
“The general theory of relativity then completed and — in contrast to the special theory — worked out by Einstein alone without simultaneous contributions by other researchers, will forever remain the classic example of a theory of perfect beauty in its mathematical structure.”
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Straumann, N. (1984). Introduction. In: General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84439-3_6
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