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The discovery of the general theory of relativity (GR) has often been justly praised as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of a single human being. At the ceremonial presentation of Hubacher’s bust of A. Einstein in Zürich, W. Pauli said:
“I worked horribly strennously, strange that one can endure that.”
—A. Einstein
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Straumann, N. (2004). Introduction. In: General Relativity. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11827-6_1
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