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ment, the final manuscript was prepared and sent to the Physical Review. It was
returned to him accompanied by a lengthy referee report in which clarifications
were requested. Einstein was enraged and wrote to the editor that he objected to
his paper being shown to colleagues prior to publication [E53]. The editor cour-
teously replied that refereeing was a procedure generally applied to all papers
submitted to his journal, adding that he regretted that Einstein may not have been
aware of this custom [T3]. Einstein sent the paper to the Journal of the Franklin
Institute and, apart from one brief note of rebuttal [E54], never published in the
Physical Review again.
The final version of the gravitational wave paper was completed in 1937. At
that time Rosen was in the Soviet Union, where Einstein had helped him to obtain
a temporary position. He had written to Vyacheslev Molotov, at that time the
chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, asking him to facilitate Rosen's
projects [E55]. The little man with the pince-nez must have replied to the good
professor, for shortly afterward Einstein wrote again to Molotov to thank him for
his help [E56]. Since 1952 Rosen has been professor at the Technion in Haifa.
- Gustav Bucky. b. 1880, Leipzig. Bucky, a physician specializing in radiol-
ogy, met the Einsteins in Berlin in the course of treating Use Kayser-Einstein.
The Buckys and the Einsteins became friends after the two families moved to the
United States. On October 27, 1936, the two men obtained joint patent No.
2,058,562 from the U.S. patent office for a photoelectric device. An open photo-
electric eye in the front of a camera takes in the object to be photographed as the
camera is pointed and automatically moves a screen of varying transparency in
front of the camera lens. d. 1963, New York.
- Leopold Infeld. b. 1898, Cracow. PhD in 1921 with Ladislas Natanson
in Cracow. In his student days, Infeld once called on Einstein in Berlin [II] and
corresponded with him from 1927 on. In 1934 Einstein wrote an introduction to
a popular scientific book by Infeld [E57]. Infeld was a member of The Institute
for Advanced Study in 1936-7, and he and Einstein wrote three joint articles
[E58, E59, E60] on the problem of motion in general relativity, the first one being
the well-known Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann paper mentioned in Chapter 15. In
1938 Einstein and Infeld wrote The Evolution of Physics, a popular scientific book
written to help Infeld financially [E61]. In his autobiography, Quest, Infeld wrote
about his days with Einstein. Einstein was not enthusiastic about this book. 'One
should not undertake anything which endangers the tenuous bridge of confidence
between people' [E62]. Infeld was professor at the University of Toronto from
1938 to 1950 and at the University of Warsaw from 1950 until his death, d. 1968,
Warsaw.
- Banesh Hoffmann, b. 1906, Richmond, England. In 1929 Hoffmann
started work on projective relativity with Veblen. PhD in 1932 with Veblen at
Princeton. A member of The Institute for Advanced Study in 1935-7. Hoffmann
co-authored the aforementioned paper with Einstein and Infeld [E58]. He has
been professor at Queens College in New York City since 1952 and is author of
