Other Einsteins (Part 1)
Einstein’s Pork Carcass Composition EquationsAlbert Einstein has a signature equation, e=mc2, which predicts how energy relates to mass. M.E. Einstein of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has a whole set of equations, which predict pork carcass composition.
M.E. and several collaborators published a series of studies — seven of them so far — in the Journal of Animal Science. Their “Evaluation of Alternative Measures of Pork Carcass Composition” appeared in 2001. It is a minor classic in the history of pork production prediction literature.
(That’s an excerpt from the article “Other Einsteins (Part 1),” published in AIR 11:1.)