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PARTICULARLY since the introduction of the theory of relativity, the problem of the ether has been a bone of contention among physicists. They have been divided into two camps; one unwilling to let go the idea of an ether, though perhaps in modified form, and the other seeing in the theory of relativity, if not the negation of an ether, at least something that rendered it no longer necessary. In view of this, it is to be welcomed that Prof. Einstein's inaugural lecture on “Ether and the Theory of Relativity,” which was delivered in 1920 at the University of Leyden, has been made accessible to the English scientific public.
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Relativity Problems. Nature 112, 319 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112319a0
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