Einstein effect

Einstein effect

Due to Einstein's prolific output, the term Einstein effect may refer, to any one of a large number of possible effects, appearing in in different fields of physics.

These may include:

* Gravitational redshift
* Gravitational lensing ,

and more specifically,
* The Bose-Einstein effect
* The Einstein-de Haas effect

ee also

* List of things named after Albert Einstein


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