Arvid Reuterdahl

Arvid Reuterdahl (February 15, 1876 – January 13, 1933) was a Swedish-American engineer, scientist and educator.

Biography

Reuterdahl was born at Karlstad on February 15, 1876. He moved to the United States as a child in 1882. He graduated Sc.B. from Brown University in 1897 and was a mathematics and physics instructor at the Technical High School in Providence. He was President of the Ramsey Institute of Technology, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1922-1926). He considered Einstein's theory to be largely "bunk" and accused him of plagiarism. Reuterdahl argued that Einstein's theory of relativity was plagiarized from a mechanical gravitation theory of Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson (pseudonym Kinertia). He argued that Stevenson's papers were sent to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1903 and that Einstein, a member of the Academy secretly made use of the papers. He was the science editor for Henry Ford's journal the Dearborn Independent.

Selected publications

Scientific Theism Versus Materialism: The Space-time Potential (1920) Einstein and the New Science (1921) "Kinertia" Versus Einstein (1921) A Synthesis of Number, Space-Time and Energy (1923) The God of Science (1928) Einsteinism: Its Fallacies and Frauds (1931)