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Eötvös is remembered today for his experimental work on gravity, in particular his study of the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass (the so-called weak equivalence principle ) and his study of the gravitational gradient on the Earth's surface.
The weak equivalence principle plays a prominent role in relativity theory, while measurements of the gravitational gradient are important in applied geophysics, such as the location of petroleum deposits.