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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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