When1: 1918
Who: Hans Thirring [Thirring, Hans]
What: physicist
Where: Austria
Detail: He lived 1888 to 1976. He stated that relativity causes orbiting-particle orbit-plane precession around a rotating mass, because rotation and angular momentum couple [1918], with Joseph Lense. He studied Lense-Thirring effect, frame dragging, and gravitomagnetism.
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