Hubert Goenner is professor emeritus at the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Göttingen. He studied mathematics and physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1962), receiving his doctorate there (after one year at Yeshiva University under Arthur Komar) in 1966 under Helmut Hönl and K. Westpfahl on contributions to the general-relativistic motion problem of fast, interacting, and self-interacting pole-dipole particles. As a post-doctoral researcher, he was an assistant to Peter Havas at Temple University in Philadelphia, and from 1969 to M. Kohler at the University of Göttingen, where he habilitated in 1973 (local isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds and Einstein's theory of gravitation). From 1975, he was a lecturer in Göttingen and from 1980 professor. He retired in 2002, but continued to be active in research. He has been a guest researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Sciencein Berlin.Giuseppe Castagnetti studied philosophy of science at the University of Milan. He was an early collaborator of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein in Boston, and a former fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. He was a respected member of the international family of Einstein scholars, making important contributions to the understanding of Einstein's call to Berlin, his early relations with astronomers, and his forced emigration by the Nazis. Castagnetti was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from its foundation in 1994 until his untimely death in 2016.
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota Tate Laboratory of Physics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAJürgen Renn, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany / Dr. Hubert Gönner ist Professor für Theoretische Physik an der Universität Göttingen und hält seit vielen Jahren Vorlesungen zur Relativitätstheorie.
Professor Jürgen Renn ist "Einstein-Experte" und Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten zählen die Entstehung der Mechanik in der Antike, Wechselwirkungen von praktischem und theoretischem Wissen seit der Renaissance, der Übergang von der klassischen zur modernen Physik, die Entstehung der Relativitätstheorie und der Einsatz neuer Medien in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Professor Renn war Koordinator der Ausstellung 'Albert Einstein - Ingenieur des Universums', die von Mai bis September 2005 in Berlin stattfand.

I Relativity in the Making.- The Search for Gravitational Absorption in the Early Twentieth Century.- Minkowski, Mathematicians, and the Mathematical Theory of Relativity.- Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation.- Rotation as the Nemesis of Einstein's Entwurf Theory.- II Relativity at Work.- Einstein, Relativity and Gravitation Research in Vienna before 1938.- Controversies in the History of the Radiation Reaction Problem in General Relativity.- The Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems: History and Implications.- III Relativity at Large.- The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory.- Genesis and Evolution of Weyl's Reflections on De Sitter's Universe.- Milne, Bondi and the 'Second Way' to Cosmology.- Steady-State Cosmology and General Relativity: Reconciliation or Conflict?.- IV Relativity in Debate.- Larmor versus General Relativity.- Kretschmann's Analysis of Covariance and Relativity Principles.- Point Coincidences and Pointer Coincidences: Einstein on the Invariant Content of Space-Time Theories.- Contributors.