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Important Discoveries in Cosmology

Monday, June 25, 2001

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ALBERT EINSTEIN
when: 1916

what he did: Introduced the "cosmological constant," a form of antigravity, to make general relativity agree with a cosmos that seemed not to be expanding

Person of the Century: Albert Einstein

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