Olinto De Pretto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olinto De Pretto

Italian businessman and geologist

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1857

Place of Birth: Schio, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 16-Mar-1921

Profession: astronomer, physicist, geologist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Olinto De Pretto (26 April 1857 – 16 March 1921) was an Italian industrialist and geologist from Schio, Vicenza.
There is evidence that De Pretto may have been the first person to derive the energy–mass-equivalence E = m c 2 {\displaystyle E=mc^{2}} , generally attributed to Albert Einstein.
De Pretto suggested that radioactive decay of uranium and thorium was an example of mass transforming into energy.