Gunnar Nordström

Finnish physicist

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    …the work of Finnish physicist Gunnar Nordström, who proposed a theory of gravity and electromagnetism with four spatial dimensions in 1914. German mathematician Theodor Kaluza in 1919 and Swedish physicist Oskar Klein in 1925 proposed a four-dimensional spatial theory, after Einstein’s discovery of general relativity in 1916. In general relativity,…

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