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Historian David Bodanis subtitled his recent best seller
E = mc2 "A Biography of the World's Most Famous
Equation." Like most biographies, it includes stories of its
subject's ancestors—in this case, innovative thinkers whose
groundbreaking experiments shaped Einstein's understanding of mass,
energy, and light. Their pioneering efforts helped make Einstein's
great epiphany possible. With Bodanis's kind permission, we've
adapted sections of E = mc2 to assemble snapshots
of these ancestors.—Susan K. Lewis
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Without these three visionary thinkers, Einstein's
equation might have been inconceivable.
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