"The number of those actively engaged in research in general relativity ... remain[ed] small in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. ... once said to me, 'You only had to know what your six best friends were doing and you would know what was happening in general relativity.' ...However, in the 1930s a new element... briefly attracted attention, then stayed... quiescent for a quarter of a century. ...J. Robert Oppenheimer and... decided to study the relative influence of nuclear and gravitational influences in s. ...Their work attracted... Richard Chase Tolman. ...there appeared in 1939, a pair of papers, one by Tolman on the static solution of Einstein's field equations for fluid spheres... and one... by Oppenheimer and ... In this paper, the foundations are laid for a general relativistic theory of . ...Half a year later, the paper... by Oppenheimer and came out... Thus began the physics of s..."
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Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (2005) pp. 268-269.
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