CENTENÁRIO DO ECLIPSE DE SOBRAL E SBPC SÃO DESTAQUE NO NEW YORK TIMES: Celebrating The Eclipse That Let Einstein Shine
03/06/2019 09:42
“A century ago, on May 29, 1919, the universe was momentarily perturbed, and Albert Einstein became famous… In Sobral, at an international meeting hosted by the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, a lecture by Luis Crispino, a physicist at the Federal University of Pará, in Brazil, aimed to set the record straight about the importance of the Brazilian expedition…
…The Sobral photographs allowed Frank Dyson, the astronomer and co-organizer of the expeditions, to conclude that the results favored general relativity, said Dr. Crispino: “This is common sense to everybody in Brazil. Outside Brazil it is not.”
