On previous day in 1905 a paper arrived at the editorial offices of the journal Annalen der Physik. The author was Albert Einstein; the title, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? In the paper, Einstein introduced the concept of matter- energy equivalence. Although E = mc² does not appear in the paper, the famous equation is present implicitly in the sentence, If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c².
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