In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics
Noether linked two important concepts in physics: conservation laws and symmetries
At a time when women were considered intellectually inferior to men...
... She resolved a nagging puzzle in Albert Einstein’s newfound theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. And in the process, she proved a revolutionary mathematical theorem that changed the way physicists study the universe.
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