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CONTENTS XIX Interlude: The BKS proposal 416 23. A loss of identity: the birth of quantum statistics 423 (a) From Boltzmann to ...

XX CONTENTS Einstein's proposals for the Nobel prize 513 An Einstein chronology 520 Name Index 531 Subject Index 539 ...

'Subtle is the Lord ...' ...

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1 Purpose and Plan It must have been around 1950. I was accompanying Einstein on a walk from The Institute for Advanced Study to ...

6 INTRODUCTORY that, nearly a decade before the discovery of modern quantum mechanics, he had been the first to understand that ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN 7 of them argued. I recall no details but remember distinctly my first impressions: they liked and respected ea ...

8 INTRODUCTORY in Princeton on March 19,1949, on the occasion of Einstein's seventieth birthday. Most of us were in our seats wh ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN 9 break with the past than had been the case with the coming of special relativity in 1905 or of general relati ...

10 INTRODUCTORY rative. The early period, from Einstein's birth in 1879 to the beginning of his academic career as Privatdozent ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN 11 Bureau of the Associated Press came on the line and told me that the Oppenhei- mer case would be all over th ...

12 INTRODUCTORY for having shot and killed Karl Sttirgkh, the prime minister of Austria [El]. After the death of Leo Arons, a ph ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN 13 question is no less a matter of taste than of fact. I would say that at his best he was not, but I would not ...

14 INTRODUCTORY and after the Nazi period attests. When he spoke or wrote of justice and liberty for others, called the Jews his ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN 15 although we now know that they will have to be replaced by others farther removed from the sphere of immedia ...

l6 INTRODUCTORY Einstein deserves to be given the same compliment he gave Newton: he, too, was an artist in exposition. His tale ...

PURPOSE AND PLAN l~] As a conclusion to this introductory sketch of Einstein the man, I should like to elaborate the statement m ...

l8 INTRODUCTORY Brownian motion, received* May 11. This was a direct outgrowth of his thesis work (5d). The first paper on spec ...