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6.富兰克林在1958年逝世，他因为发现DNA于1962年被授予诺贝尔奖。于是便出现了这样的争议：如果他1962年仍在世，是否会和其他获奖者分享这一奖项。
7.Albert Einstein, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (1905). This paper established the special theory of relativity. See Robert Bruce Lindsay and Henry Margenau, Foundations of Physics (Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1981), 330.
8.“Crookes radiometer,” Wikipedia, http:// en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Crookes_radi ometer.
9.需要注意的是，一些光子的动量被转移至灯泡内空气中的分子上（因为它并非完全真空），然后从加热的空气分子转移至叶片。
10.阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦：《身体的惯性取决于它所含的能量吗？》（Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content 1905）本文建立了爱因斯坦著名的公式E = MC2。
11.“Albert Einstein’s Letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” http://hypertextbook. com/ eworld/ einstein. shtml.
