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  2. Hermann Minkowski - Wikipedia

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    Hermann Minkowski was born in the town of Aleksota, the Suwałki Governorate, the Kingdom of Poland, since 1864 part of the Russian Empire, to Lewin Boruch Minkowski, a merchant who subsidized the building of the choral synagogue in Kovno, [10] [11] [12] and Rachel Taubmann, both of Jewish descent. [13]

  3. Category:Hermann Minkowski - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Hermann Minkowski" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Minkowski space - Wikipedia

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    Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) found that the theory of special relativity could be best understood as a four-dimensional space, since known as the Minkowski spacetime.. In physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) (/ m ɪ ŋ ˈ k ɔː f s k i,-ˈ k ɒ f-/ [1]) is the main mathematical description of spacetime in the absence of gravitation.

  5. Spacetime diagram - Wikipedia

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    The most well-known class of spacetime diagrams are known as Minkowski diagrams, developed by Hermann Minkowski in 1908. Minkowski diagrams are two-dimensional graphs that depict events as happening in a universe consisting of one space dimension and one time dimension. Unlike a regular distance-time graph, the distance is displayed on the ...

  6. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  7. Minkowski - Wikipedia

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    Minkowski, Mińkowski or Minkovski (Slavic feminine: Minkowska, ... Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909) Russian-born German mathematician and physicist, known for:

  8. Poincaré group - Wikipedia

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    The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1905), [1] was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. [2] [3] It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian Lie group that is of importance as a model in our understanding of the most basic fundamentals of physics.

  9. Timeline of special relativity and the speed of light - Wikipedia

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    1908 – Hermann Minkowski publishes his spacetime formalism of special relativity. 1908 – Frederick Thomas Trouton and Alexander Rankine conduct an experiment with electric circuit , proving that the length contraction is not the only relativistic effect and some form of time dilation is present – similarly to the previous experiments by ...