caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for residence image article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
olinto de pretto 16 march 1921 schio , province of vicenza , italy schio , province of vicenza , italy italian theoretical physics geology superior alpinistic circle school of agriculture , milano mechanical foundry mill 26 april 1857 nonrelativistic -lrb- e & # 61 ; mc 2 -rrb- work derivation on the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium effects of of glaciers on the formation of mountains work on agronomics the mass -- energy equivalence relation schio , italy olintodepretto.jpg olinto de pretto
 gaetano cantoni olinto de pretto superior school of agriculture , milano
olinto de pretto

olinto de pretto -lrb- 1857 -- 1921 -rrb- was an italian industrialist and geologist from schio , vicenza .
there are claims that de pretto may have been the first person to derive the energy -- mass-equivalence formula_1 , generally attributed to albert einstein .
he suggested that radioactive decay of uranium and thorium was an example of mass transforming into energy .
