Einstein (121 page)

37
. Alfred Kleiner, report to faculty, Mar. 4, 1909.

38
. Einstein to Jakob Laub, May 19, 1909.

39
. Einstein, verse in the album of Anna Schmid, Aug. 1899, CPAE 1: 49.

40
. Einstein to Anna Meyer-Schmid, May 12, 1909.

41
. Mileva Mari
to Georg Meyer, May 23, 1909; Einstein to Georg Meyer, June 7, 1909; Einstein to Erika Schaerer-Meyer, July 27, 1951; Highfield and Carter, 125; Overbye, 164.

42
. Mileva Mari
to Helene Savi
, late 1909, Sept. 3, 1909, in Popovi
, 26–27.

43
. Seelig 1956a, 92; Dukas and Hoffmann, 5–7.

44
. Einstein to Arnold Sommerfeld, Jan. 14, 1908. I am grateful to Douglas Stone of Yale, who helped me with Einstein’s early work on the quanta.

45
. Einstein lecture in Salzburg, “On the Development of Our Views Concerning the Nature and Constitution of Radiation,” Sept. 21, 1909, CPAE 2: 60; Schilpp, 154; Armin Hermann,
The Genesis of the Quantum Theory
(Cam-bridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971), 66–69.

46
. Einstein to Arnold Sommerfeld, July 1910. As Einstein’s friend Banesh Hoffmann quipped in
The Strange Story of the Quantum
(New York: Dover, 1959), “They could but make the best of it, and went around with woebegone faces sadly complaining that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays they must look upon light as a wave; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, as a particle. On Sundays they simply prayed.”

47
. Discussion following Sept. 21, 1909, lecture in Salzburg, CPAE 2: 61.

48
. Einstein to Jakob Laub, Nov. 4 and 11, 1910.

49
. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, May 20, 1912.

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE WANDERING PROFESSOR

1
. The best and original work about Duhem’s influence on Einstein is by Don Howard. See Howard 1990a, 2004.

2
. Friedrich Adler to Viktor Adler, Oct. 28, 1909, in Fölsing, 258.

3
. Seelig 1956a, 97.

4
. Seelig 1956a, 113.

5
. Seelig 1956a, 99–104; Brian 1996, 76.

6
. Seelig 1956a, 102; Einstein to Arnold Sommerfeld, Jan. 19, 1909.

7
. Overbye, 185; Miller 2001, 229–231.

8
. Hans Albert Einstein interview,
Gazette and Daily
(York, Pa.), Sept. 20, 1948; Seelig 1956a, 104; Highfield and Carter, 129.

9
. Einstein to Pauline Einstein, Apr. 28, 1910.

10
. Student petition, University of Zurich, June 23, 1910, CPAE 5: 210.

11
. Repeated in lecture by Max Planck, Columbia University, spring 1909; Pais 1982, 192; Fölsing, 271.

12
. Einstein to Jakob Laub, Aug. 27, Oct. 11, 1910; Count Karl von Stürgkh to Einstein, Jan. 13, 1911; Frank 1947, 98–101; Clark, 172–176; Fölsing, 271–273; Pais 1982, 192.

13
. Frank 1947, 104. Frank has the visit occuring in 1913, but in fact it occurred in Sept. 1910 when Einstein was in Vienna for his official interview about the Prague professorship. See notes in CPAE 5 (German version), p. 625.

14
. Einstein to Hendrik Lorentz, Jan. 27, 1911.

15
. Einstein to Jakob Laub, May 19, 1909.

16
. Einstein to Hendrik Lorentz, Feb. 15, 1911.

17
. Pais 1982, 8; Brian 1996, 78; Klein 1970a, 303. The Ehrenfest description is from a draft of his eulogy for Lorentz.

18
. Einstein, “Address at the Grave of Lorentz” (1928), in Einstein 1954, 73; Einstein, “Message for Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Lorentz” (1953), in Einstein 1954, 73. See also Bucky, 114.

19
. Mileva Mari
to Helene Savi
, Jan. 1911, in Popovi
, 30; Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Apr. 7, 1911.

20
. Frank 1947, 98.

21
. Max Brod,
The Redemption of Tycho Brahe
(New York: Knopf, 1928); Seelig 1956a, 121; Clark, 179; Highfield and Carter, 138.

22
. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Jan. 26, Feb. 12, 1912.

23
. Einstein, “Paul Ehrenfest: In Memoriam,” written in 1934 for a Leiden almanac and reprinted in Einstein 1950a, 132.

24
. Klein 1970a, 175–178; Seelig 1956a, 125; Fölsing, 294; Clark, 194; Brian 1996, 83; Highfield and Carter, 142.

25
. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Mar. 10, 1912; Einstein to Alfred Kleiner, Apr. 3, 1912; Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Apr. 25, 1912. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Mar. 17, 1912: “I would like to see him my successor here. But his fanatical atheism makes that impossible.” Zangger’s letter was part of material released in 2006 and is published as CPAE 5: 374a in a supplement to vol. 10.

26
. Dirk van Delft, “Albert Einstein in Leiden,”
Physics Today
, Apr. 2006, 57.

27
. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Nov. 7, 1911.

28
. An invitation from Ernest Solvay, June 9, 1911, CPAE 5: 269; Einstein to Michele Besso, Sept. 11, Oct. 21, 1911.

29
. Einstein, “On the Present State of the Problem of Specific Heats,” Nov. 3, 1911, CPAE 3: 26; the quote about “really exist in nature” appears on p. 421 of the English translation of vol. 3.

30
. Discussion following Einstein lecture, Nov. 3, 1911, CPAE 3: 27.

31
. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Nov. 7 and 15, 1911.

32
. Einstein to Michele Besso, Dec. 26, 1911.

33
. Bernstein 1996b, 125.

34
. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Nov. 7, 1911.

35
. Einstein to Marie Curie, Nov. 23, 1911. (This letter is included at the beginning of CPAE vol. 8, not vol. 5, where it would have fit chronologically had this letter been available when that volume was published.)

36
. Mileva Mari
to Einstein, Oct. 4, 1911.