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PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 39 aims to overthrow authority. Rather, he was so free that any form of authority but t ...

40 INTRODUCTORY nervous disorders, he obtained a release from the Gymnasium and in the early spring of 1895 traveled to Pavia. H ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 41 In 1896 Einstein's status changed from that of German high school pupil in Aarau to ...

42 INTRODUCTORY Einstein's essay written in Aarau, for which he received the grade 3 to 4 (out of 6). Courtesy Staatsarchiv Kant ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 43 ...

44 INTRODUCTORY 'Most of the time I worked in the physical laboratory, fascinated by the direct contact with observation,' Einst ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 45 functions; 4.5 for an essay on heat conductivity (out of a maximum of 6). And so, in ...

46 INTRODUCTORY Finally Einstein found a temporary job. Starting May 19, 1901, he became a substitute teacher for two months at ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 47 French correctly but with a light accent' [F4]. It was at this time that he met Maur ...

48 INTRODUCTORY in later chapters.* Here I note only that in March he completed a paper which was to earn him the Nobel prize an ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 49 A. Einstein, Autobiographisches, in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist (P. Schi ...

50 INTRODUCTORY E16. , letter to H. Kamerlingh Onnes, April 17, 1901. El 7. H. Einstein, letter to W. Ostwald, April 13, 1901. E ...

PORTRAIT OF THE PHYSICIST AS A YOUNG MAN 51 E. G. Straus, lecture given at Yeshiva University, September 18, 1979. Se, p. 15. E ...

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4 Entropy and Probability 4a. Einstein's Contributions at a Glance Einstein's activities related to thermodynamics, statistical ...

56 STATISTICAL PHYSICS tributions to statistical physics and kinetic theory as neither more nor less than extremely ingenious an ...

ENTROPY AND PROBABILITY 57 temperature derivative. Using known data, he could check his hypothesis, which, he found, actually wo ...

58 STATISTICAL PHYSICS 1902-4. The three studies on the foundations of statistical mechanics. The first paper deals with the def ...