Georgi Manev

{{Infobox scientist |name = Georgi Ivanov Manev<br>Георги Иванов Манев |image =  |image_size = |caption = Bulgarian physicist |birth_date = 15 January 1884 |birth_place = Veliko Tarnovo, Principality of Bulgaria |death_date = {{d-da|15 July 1965|15 January 1884}} |death_place = Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria |children = Angel Manev<br>Fannie Maneva |ethnicity = |fields = Classical and celestial mechanics |workplaces = University of Sofia |alma_mater = University of Sofia |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Manev field |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards =

|module = {{Infobox officeholder |embed = yes |office = 55th Minister of Public Education (Bulgaria) |prime_minister = Georgi Kyoseivanov |term_start = 24 January 1938 |term_end = 14 November 1938 |predecessor = Nikolay Nikolaev |successor = Bogdan Filov

|office2 = 31st Rector of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" |term_start2 = 1936 |term_end2 = 1937 |predecessor2 = Michail Arnaudov |successor2 = Georgi Genov }}

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'''Georgi Manev''' ({{langx|bg|Георги Манев}}) (15 January 1884 – 15 July 1965) was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University (1936–37) and education minister of Bulgaria (1938).<ref>{{cite conference |url=http://www.skyarchive.org/recent_pub/manev_bpuSP18.pdf |title=The Bulgarian Physicist Georgi Manev |first=M. K. |last=Tsvetkov |author2=K. P. Tsvetkova |author3=V. Mioc |author4=M. Stavinschi |date=August 2003 |conference=Fifth General Conference of the Balkan Physical Union |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311050358/http://www.skyarchive.org/recent_pub/manev_bpuSP18.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-11 }}</ref> His work, mostly known as the Manev field, is used today in aerospace science.

The articles he published in the 1920s have been noticed by Yusuke Hagihara and have been further analysed by Florin Diacu and co-workers.

==Letter from Albert Einstein== Manev's gravitational theory ran counter to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Einstein's less-than-glowing assessment of Manev’s theory had complicated his colleague’s prospects for a full professorship at Sofia University. In July 1929, Einstein wrote an apologetic letter to Manev, offering to help make the situation “good again.”

The typewritten letter, signed “A. Einstein,” belongs to Manev's family and was subject of an art restoration project at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). The letter was creased, partly from being folded, mailed, and tucked into a book for safekeeping during World War II. The creases were retained, removing the adhesive tape without damaging the typed words on the paper.<ref name=Letter>{{cite web| url=https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Art-conservation-and-hidden-histories-2.aspx | title=Art Conservation And Hidden Histories| website=artcons.udel.edu/| publisher=The Department Of Art Conservation, University of Delaware| date=February 17, 2020}}</ref>

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