Buch, Deutsch, 780 Seiten, Format (B × H): 267 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 1710 g
The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914
Buch, Deutsch, 780 Seiten, Format (B × H): 267 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 1710 g
Reihe: Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
ISBN: 978-0-691-03322-8
Verlag: Princeton University Press
This volume, the first in the series to be devoted to Einstein's correspondence, begins in June 1902, when he went to work at the Swiss Patent Office. It closes in March 1914, as Einstein left Switzerland to take up his appointment as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The great majority of the more than 500 letters from and to Einstein presented here have not been published before, and some of them will be new even to most Einstein scholars. They give us a much richer picture of Einstein in his twenties and early thirties than we have ever had. We see him through his correspondence with his mother, his wife Mileva, and, from 1912 on, his cousin Elsa, who would later become his second wife. He maintains close ties with old friends, but his circle widens, particularly after 1906, to include a number of his contemporaries in physics such as Max Laue and Paul Ehrenfest. He also develops important relationships with older theorists--Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld, and especially H. A. Lorentz.The letters in this volume clarify the development of his academic career once he leaves the Patent Office in 1909, and bring out the important parts played by such staunch supporters of Einstein as Alfred Kleiner, Fritz Haber, and, above all, Walther Nernst.Most significant, however, is the way the letters document crucial aspects of Einstein's scientific activity: his concentration for years on the unfathomable problems of quanta and radiation, his extensive knowledge of experimental physics, his many fruitful interactions with experimentalists, and finally his long struggle to generalize the 1905 theory of relativity to include gravitation and accelerated frames of reference.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Texts xi
List of Illustrations xxix
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Introduction to Volume 5 xxxi
Supplement to the Editorial Method in Previous Volumes xxxix
Acknowledgments xliii
Note on the Translation xlv
List of Location Symbols xlvi
List of Descriptive Symbols xlix
TEXTS 3
Vol. 1, 34a. To Pauline Winteler, 21 May 1897*
Vol. 1, 48a. To Rosa Winteler, August 1899* Vol. 1, 98a. To Carl Paalzow, 12 April 1901*
1. To Mileva Marić, 28 June 1902 or later
2. To Hans Wohlwend, 15 August-3 October 1902
3. Dedication, Einstein as Member of the Olympia Academy, 1903, including Translation
4. Marriage Certificate, 6 January 1903
5. To Michele Besso, 22? January 1903
6. From Michele Besso, 7-11 February 1903
7. To Michele Besso, 17 March 1903
8. To Helene Savić, ca. 20 March 1903
9. From Emma Ehrat-?hlinger, 22 March 1903
10. To Emma Ehrat-?hlinger, last week of March 1903
11. To Jakob Ehrat, last week of March 1903
12. From Mileva Einstein-Marić, 27 August 1903
13. To Mileva Einstein-Marić, 19? September 1903
14. To Conrad Habicht, 3 October 1903
15. To Conrad Habicht, 30 November 1903
16. To Conrad Habicht, 20 February 1904
17. To Marcel Grossmann, 6? April 1904
18. To Conrad Habicht, 15 April 1904
19. To Helene and Milivoj Savi´, 15 May 1904
20. To Mileva Einstein-Marić, 25 July 1904
21. To Conrad Habicht, 1 August 1904
22. To Conrad Habicht, 6 August 1904
23. To Conrad Habicht, 6 August 1904
* This document was discovered after the publication of Volume One.
24. From the Swiss Patent Office, 20 September 1904
25. To Conrad Habicht, 6 March 1905
26. To Conrad Habicht, 6 March 1905
27. To Conrad Habicht, 18 or 25 May 1905
28. To Conrad Habicht, 30 June-22 September 1905
29. To Rudolf Martin, 20 July 1905
30. To Conrad Habicht, 20 July 1905-summer 1915
31. Expert Opinion by Alfred Kleiner and Heinrich Burkhardt on
Einstein's Dissertation, 22-23 July 1905
32. To Philipp Lenard, 16 November 1905
33. From Josef Zametzer, 7 January 1906
34. From the Swiss Patent Office, 13 March 1906
35. To the Bern Municipal Gas and Water Works, 23 April 1906
36. To Maurice Solovine, 27 April 1906
37. From Max Laue, 2 June 1906
38. To the Bern Municipal Gas and Water Works, 6 June 1906
39. To Conrad Habicht, 27 July 1906
40. From Wilhelm R?ntgen, 18 September 1906
41. To Jost Winteler, 3 November 1906
42. To Helene and Milivoj Savić, December 1906?
43. To Alfred Schnauder, 5 January-11 May 1907
44. To Jost Winteler, 7 February 1907
45. To Johannes Stark, 13 April 1907
46. To the Department of Education, Canton of Bern, 17 June 1907
47. From Max Planck, 6 July 1907
Editorial Note: Einstein's "Maschinchen " for the Measurement of Small Quantities of Electricity
48. To Conrad and Paul Habicht, 15 July 1907
Editorial Note: Einstein on Superluminal Signal Velocities
49. To Wilhelm Wien, 23 July 1907
50. To Wilhelm Wien, 25 July 1907
51. To Wilhelm Wien, 29 July 1907
52. To Wilhelm Wien, 7 August 1907
53. To Wilhelm Wien, 11 August 1907
54. To Paul and Conrad Habicht, 16 August 1907
55. To Wilhelm Wien, 26 August 1907
56. To Conrad and Paul Habicht, 2 September 1907
57. From Max Laue, 4 September 1907
58. To Johannes Stark, 25 September 1907
59. From the B. G. Teubner Publishing House, 3 October 1907
60. From Johannes Stark, 4 October 1907
61. To Johannes Stark, 7 October 1907
62. From Hermann Minkowski, 9 October 1907
63. To Johannes Stark, 1 November 1907
64. From Max Planck, 9 November 1907
65. From Richard Lorenz, 15 November 1907
66. To Johannes Stark, 7 December 1907
67. Swiss Patent Office Letter on the AEG Alternating Current Machine, 11 December 1907
68. To Rudolf Ladenburg, 20 December 1907
69. To Conrad Habicht, 24 December 1907
70. F
