Marcel Grossmann

GEN.291.1. Prigogine, Marcel Grossmann Award talk, in Proc. 9th Marcel Grossmann meeting, World Scientific, Singapore, 2002, pp. xx-xxii. 

Abstract The Hilbert-Einstein field equations describe the structure of space-time in the general theory of relativity. Their simplified form, in a vacuum, was discovered in 1913 by Marcel Grossmann in two joint publications with Einstein, who, for his part, rejected this idea and presented another hypothesis... He reverted to Grossmann s idea only two years later. 

The genesis of this discovery called for a series of curious coincidences. The absolute differential calculus was a speciality only of the School of Zurich, and it required an improbable meeting between this School, Albert Einstein and the mathematician Marcel Grossmann, who was also able to think as a pure physicist. 

Marcel Grossmann, student of Minkowski, friend of Einstein and successor of Christoffel, after 1907, at the Zurich polytechnicum. Reports on the works of Christoffel and Ricci-Curbastro. 

Unger, K. Kumar, D. Ehwald, V. Grossmann, F. Adsorption on Silica Surfaces from Solution and Its Impact on Chromatographic Separation Techniques in Adsorption on Silica Surfaces, E. Papirer, Ed. (Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 2000), Chap. 17, p. 565. 

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