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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinto_De_Pretto
> Italian industrialist and geologist from Schio, Vicenza. There is evidence[1][2] that De Pretto may have been the first person to derive the energy–mass-equivalence E = m c 2 generally attributed to Albert Einstein. He suggested that radioactive decay of uranium and thorium was an example of mass transforming into energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Soldner
>Soldner is now mostly remembered for having concluded — based on Newton's corpuscular theory of light — that light would be diverted by heavenly bodies. In a paper written in 1801 and published in 1804, he calculated the amount of deflection of a light ray by a star

>Albert Einstein calculated and published a value for the amount of gravitational light-bending in light skimming the Sun in 1911, leading Phillipp Lenard to accuse Einstein of plagiarising Soldner's result.