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28 Epilogui I saw Einstein for the last time in December 1954. As he had not been well, he had for some weeks been absent from t ...

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29 Of Tensors and a Hearing Aid and Many Other Things: Einstein's Collaborators All of Einstein's major papers are his alone. Ho ...

484 APPENDICES Jakob Johann Latib. b. 1872, Jagerndorf, Austria. PhD with W. Wien in Wiirzburg, November, 1906. Laub published ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 485 stein was quite excited about his invention, and at one time must have even con- sidered patenting ...

486 APPENDICES his major subject and physics as a secondary subject. After Einstein arrived in Prague, he took Nohel as his assi ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 487 Adriaan Daniel Fokker. b. 1887, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies, (now Bogor, Indonesia). PhD in 1913 ...

488 APPENDICES theory' [E20]. In 1927 they wrote a joint paper on the problem of motion in gen- eral relativity (see Chapter 15) ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 489 end. The open end is connected to an air pump. The empty tube is hung in a bath of aether (chosen f ...

490 APPENDICES ents were awarded after Einstein had left that country. In 1927 Einstein autho- rized Szilard to apply in his own ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 491 used in the first radiotelegraphic link between Germany and the United States, opened on June 19, 1 ...

492 APPENDICES with Einstein at least as early as 1927. In 1928 Einstein wrote to him on distant parallelism: 'This mathematical ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 493 ham Flexner, the first director of the Institute, Einstein insisted on an appoint- ment for Mayer a ...

494 APPENDICES be associated with work on unified field theory and that he believed his career would best be furthered by indepe ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 495 ment, the final manuscript was prepared and sent to the Physical Review. It was returned to him acc ...

496 APPENDICES an excellent popular biography of Einstein [H4] and, together with Helen Dukas, of a book on memorable pronouncem ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 497 without awareness of numerous earlier contributions to this subject by others [E72]. A second paper ...

498 APPENDICES D2. H. H. Denman, Physics Today, March 1967, p. 141. D3. H. Dukas and B. Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Sid ...