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The Eötvös Experiment

Around 1900 a Hungarian baron conducted exquisite measurements to demonstrate that all bodies fall at precisely the same rate. His result, crucial to the general theory of relativity, has now been confirmed

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 205 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “The Eötvös Experiment” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 6 (), p. 84
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1261-84