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In mid-century, General Relativity was largely in the doldrums. Though at the time I was completely unaware of it, there were perhaps only four or five active groups around the world working in GR; Hamburg (Jordan), London (Bondi), Princeton (Wheeler), Warsaw (Infeld) and Syracuse (Bergmann). I had the privilege and pleasure of being a member of the Syracuse group working under Peter G. Bergmann. I would like to describe some of the things that took place there, who were the active participants, who we interacted with, what was accomplished and finally conjecture what role we played in the revitalization of relativity in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Jean Eisenstaedt, Low Water Mark of General Relativity, 1925–1955, Proceedings of the 1986 Osgood Hill Conference, Einstein Studies Vol.I, D. Howard and J. Sachel Editor, Birkhäauser Boston, 1986.
Josh Goldberg, report to the History of GR Conference; Notre Dame, 1998, to be published.
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Newman, E.T. (2005). A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951–1961. In: Kox, A.J., Eisenstaedt, J. (eds) The Universe of General Relativity. Einstein Studies, vol 11. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4454-7_20
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