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Science 14 November 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5341, p. 1201
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5341.1201c
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Albert Einstein and David Hilbert published the central elements of the general theory of relativity at almost the same time, and Hilbert in fact beat Einstein by 5 days in the submission dates of the manuscripts. Corry et al. (p. 1270) now provide archival evidence consisting of the proofs of Hilbert's paper, which show that at the time of submission, the manuscript did not in fact contain crucial parts of the theory, which were added later at proof stage. The evidence suggests that Einstein was the first to fully develop the theory, whereas Hilbert changed the proofs of his paper after seeing a copy of Einstein's paper.

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