Arvid Reuterdahl

Arvid Reuterdahl (February 15, 1876 – January 13, 1933) was a Swedish-American engineer, scientist and educator.

Arvid Reuterdahl
BornFebruary 15, 1876
DiedJanuary 13, 1933
OccupationEngineer, writer

Reuterdahl taught engineering at Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus. He was the first Dean of the Department of Engineering and Architecture at the College of St. Thomas.[1]

Reuterdahl was a noted opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.[2][3][4] He considered Einstein's theory to be largely "bunk" and accused him of plagiarism.[5][6] Reuterdahl argued that Einstein's theory of relativity was plagiarized from a mechanical gravitation theory of Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson (pseudonym Kinertia). He argued that Stevenson's papers were sent to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1903 and that Einstein, a member of the Academy secretly made use of the papers.[4]

Reuterdahl communicated with other anti-relativists such as Ernst Gehrcke.[7] He was science editor for Henry Ford's journal the Dearborn Independent.[3]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Arvid Reuterdahl Papers". University of St. Thomas. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. Heidenreich, E. L (2004). "Reuterdahl vs. Einstein: Nailing a Fallacy". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 26: 63–66.
  3. Wazeck, Milena (2013). "Marginalization Processes in Science: The Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s". Social Studies of Science. 43 (2): 163–190.
  4. Wazeck, Milena. (2014). Einstein's Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s. Cambridge University Press. pp. 171-173. ISBN 978-1-107-01744-3
  5. "April 10, 1921: St. Thomas prof calls Einstein's theory 'bunk'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  6. "The Origin of Einsteinism; Prof. Reuterdahl, Replying to Mr. Bond, Says That, in the Absence of Proofs of Innocence, Ein-stein Stands Convicted of Plagiarism". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  7. Rowe, David E. (2018). A Richer Picture of Mathematics: The Göttingen Tradition and Beyond. Springer. p. 260. ISBN 978-3-319-67818-4
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