Christopher Jon Bjerknes

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Christopher Jon Bjerknes (born 1965) is an amateur historian of science, best known for his claims that Albert Einstein plagiarized some of his most significant contributions to theoretical physics.

In a self-published book Albert Einstein: The incorrigible plagiarist (2002), Bjerknes accuses Einstein of having plagiarised his work from a variety of prominent contemporaries, including David Hilbert and Henri Poincaré. This book was critically attacked by the science historian John Stachel in a review for Physics World (2003). This review followed an earlier paper published in the leading journal Science (1997) in which Stachel, Corry and Renn declared that the Einstein-Hilbert priority dispute had been settled. Bjerknes later collaborated with Friedwardt Winterberg in a critique of this paper (2004).

Bjerknes and Winterberg have spoken up to defend some highly controversial figures, including David Irving and Arthur Rudolph. Despite being lionized in some articles at the White Nationalist Wiki, Bjerknes disavows any antisemitic motivation for his attacks on Einstein. Bjerknes has written himself on the Holocaust for the Holocaust denial "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust", claiming that "Racist Zionists" perpetuated the anti-Semitism of the Holocaust, as well as having later used the history of anti-Semitism as "a means to control public opinion in a most corrupt and deplorable fashion". He also claims that "Jewish racists helped to put Hitler into power in order to herd up the Jews of Europe and force them into segregation", that "Jewish racists collaborated with the Nazis to kill off the weakest Jews and preserve the best genetic stock for deportation to Palestine", and that, contrary to mainstream historical opinion, that the Nazis did not plot genocide at the Wannsee Conference.

Bjerknes is allegedly the great grandson of one Carl Anton Bjerknes, the father of the renowned Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, and claims to be "a man of Jewish descent".

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Bjerknes, Christopher Jon (2002). Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist. XTX Inc, Downer's Grove, IL. ISBN 0-9719629-8-7.
Corry, L., Renn, J. and Stachel, J. (1997). "Belated decision in the Hilbert-Einstein priority dispute". Science 278: 1270-1274. Abstract The paper attacked by Bjerknes and Winterberg.
Stachel, John (Editor) (1998). Einstein's miraculous year : five papers that changed the face of physics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05938-1. Einstein's five 1905 papers, reprinted with commentary by several physicists and historians.
Stachel, J. (2003). "Anti-Einstein sentiment surfaces again". Physics World April.

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[edit] Christopher Jon Bjerknes and his claims

XTX, Inc. The web site of Christopher Jon Bjerknes.
The incorrigible plagiarist page from Bjernes' web site.
John Stachel's review from Physics World of Bjerknes's book.
Bjerknes' response. Bjerknes claims that Physics World declined to publish this response. Contains Bjerknes's claim to have Jewish heritage.
A favorable review, originally published in Infinite Energy Magazine, a newsletter promoting perpetuum mobile "free energy" schemes. This review contains the claim that Christopher Jon Bjerknes is related to Vilhelm Bjerknes.
Did Einstein give praise to other physicists? A collection of quotations from Einstein's popular books.
A more moderate summary of the controversy, by Cecil Adams.

[edit] Other writings by Christopher Jon Bjerknes

Article by Bjerknes to the Committee for Open Discussion of the Holocaust website, defending jailed Holocaust-denier David Irving, and includes much about his own theories about the role of "Racist Zionists" in using the history of the Holocaust as a "means to control public opinion in a most corrupt and deplorable fashion" as well as being active in "promoting anti-Semitism" in the Holocaust itself.