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{{Short description|German physicist (1875–1922)}} {{For|the music publisher|Max Abraham (publisher)}} {{Further|History of special relativity|Mass-energy equivalence|Lorentz ether theory}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Max Abraham |image =Max_abraham.png |image_size = |caption = Abraham, {{circa|1905}} |birth_date = 26 March 1875 |birth_place = [[Danzig]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]], [[German Empire]] |death_date = {{death-date and age|16 November 1922|26 March 1875}} |death_place = [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[Weimar Republic]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = [[Physics]] |work_institutions = {{plainlist| *[[University of Göttingen]] (1900–1909) *[[University of Chicago]] (1909–1909) *[[Polytechnic University of Milan|Istituto Tecnico Superiore]] (until 1914) *[[Technische Hochschule Stuttgart]] (until 1921) }} |alma_mater = [[University of Berlin]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Max Planck]] |doctoral_students = |known_for =[[Abraham–Minkowski controversy]]<br>[[Abraham–Lorentz force]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} {{Special relativity sidebar}} '''Max Abraham''' ({{IPA|de|ˈaːbʀaham|lang}}; 26 March 1875 – 16 November 1922) was a German [[physicist]] known for his work on [[electromagnetism]] and his opposition to the [[theory of relativity]].
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