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Mozibur Ullah
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Well Wigners rotation in special relativity which is the observation that two non-parallel boosts will result not in another boost but a composite of a boost and rotation was actually first formulated by Ludvik Silberstein in 1914, by Llewelyn Thomas in 1926 and then by Wigner in 1939, that is over two decades later.

Since Wigner acknowledged Silberstein's priority, I propose it be renamed Silberstein rotation ...

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