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EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 499 E42. , letter to A. Flexner, March 24, 1933. E43. , letter to A. Flexner, April 13,1933. E44. , let ...

500 APPENDICES Gl. J. Grommer, letter to A. Einstein, 1929, undated. HI. M. Habicht, Verh. Schw. Naturf. Ges., 1959, p. 405. H2. ...

EINSTEIN'S COLLABORATORS 501 Se, p. 16. L. Szilard, letter to A. Einstein, October 12, 1929. Tl. R. C. Tolman, The Theory of th ...

3° How Einstein got the Nobel Prize The procedure of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for awarding the Nobel prize in physi ...

HOW EINSTEIN GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE 503 ment of a highly responsible, rather conservative body of great prestige, the Com- mittee. ...

504 APPENDICES 'the hope that also Switzerland, which during many years provided the scholar a home and opportunities to work, w ...

HOW EINSTEIN GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE 505 chat with Einstein afterward [HI]. Einstein later gave a second, more technical lecture at ...

506 APPENDICES Quantum physics. Bohr, Paschen, Planck, Sommerfeld; (prize deferred; 1917 prize goes to Barkla). Theoretical phy ...

HOW EINSTEIN GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE 507 Before turning in more detail to the later nominations, I first note the reactions of the C ...

508 APPENDICES Stefan Meyer from Vienna cites relativity (from now on, relativity refers to the special and the general theory). ...

HOW EINSTEIN GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE 509 Haas and Warburg are also back. General relativity is cited in letters by W. Dal- lenbach ( ...

51O APPENDICES he had presented a paper on these considerations, a reprint of which was appended to his report [Gl].* The main p ...

HOW EINSTEIN GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE 511 A further exchange between Gullstrand and Kretschmann settled their differ- ences to mutual ...

512 APPENDICES L2. Les Prix Nobel, pp. 101-2. Imprimerie Royale, Stockholm, 1923. L3. H. A. Lorentz, letter to P. Ehrenfest, Sep ...

3 1 Einstein's Proposals for the Nobel Prize Einstein's Nobel prize proposals enable us to catch glimpses of what, in his judg- ...

514 APPENDICES to ease my conscience,' he notes the following 'approximately equivalent possibilities: [J.] Franck and [G.] Hert ...

EINSTEIN S PROPOSALS FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE 515 found in the excellent Freud biography by Ernest Jones [Jl]. I mention here one add ...

516 APPENDICES 'The question of who should get the prize first is hard to answer. Personally, I assess Schroedinger's achievemen ...

EINSTEIN S PROPOSALS FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE 517 him for the peace prize, initiated in 1934, grew into an international campaign. In ...

518 APPENDICES his own life, worked to rescue thousands of my unhappy Jewish people' [E3]. In reply, an underling stated that he ...