# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwik-silberstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:33:12.388Z

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name: "Ludwik Silberstein"
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description: "Ludwik Silberstein was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924."
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birthDate: "1872-05-17"
deathDate: "1948-01-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump