An Einstein Encyclopedia by Calaprice, Alice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Preface Chronology Credo: “What I Believe” Part I. The Personal and Family Spheres

Vital Information: Certificates in Facsimile

Birth Certificate Report Card Doctoral Certificate Nobel Prize Certificate U.S. Naturalization Certificate Death Certificate

Birth Information Archives

Helen Dukas Otto Nathan

Awards, Honorary Degrees, and Honorary Memberships in Foreign Societies

Awards, Medals, and Miscellaneous Honors Honorary Degrees Sampling of Honorary Memberships in Foreign Academies of Sciences and Societies

Career

List of Years, Job Titles, and Employers Employment History Places of Employment

Citizenships and Immigration to the United States Domiciles Education and Schools Attended

Educational Background Schools and Universities Attended

Einstein Papers Project (EPP) and the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (CPAE)

Prehistory of the EPP Early Days The Project Gets Under Way The Boston Offices The Move to Caltech CPAE Volumes and Editors

Fame

The Media Art and Commercialism

Family

Family Relationships Grandparents and Parents Sister: Maria (Maja) Winteler-Einstein—Husband, Paul Winteler Family No. 1 (Consisting of Einstein, Mileva, and Their Offspring) Family No. 2 (Consisting of Einstein, Elsa, and Elsa’s Two Daughters)

Friends

Michele Besso Max and Hedwig Born Lucien Chavan Jakob Ehrat Paul Ehrenfest Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians Marcel Grossmann Conrad Habicht Hans Mühsam Georg Nicolai Janos Plesch Romain Rolland Maurice (Moritz) Solovine Winteler Family Stephen Wise Heinrich Zangger

Health

Health Exam Health Problems

Myths and Misconceptions

Asperger’s Syndrome Bad Student Communist Could Have Gone Fishing Responsible for the Atom Bomb Left-Handedness Mileva Marić as Alleged Collaborator Only Ten or Twelve People Can Understand Relativity Theory Political Naiveté Vegetarian Verification of General Relativity Theory Was Unimportant to Einstein Was Only a Theorist

Pastimes

Hiking Music Reading Sailing Writing Poems and Aphorisms

Romantic Interests: Actual, Probable, and Possible

Marie Winteler Betty Neumann Else Kotányi Jerusalem Estella Katzenellenbogen Margarete Lebach Ethel Michanowsky Toni Mendel Margarita Konenkova Johanna Fantova

Secretaries Teachers

At the Aargau Cantonal School At the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (ETH) At the University of Zurich

Travels and Travel Diaries

America, 1921 Asia, 1922–1923: The Far East and Palestine Spain, 1923 South America, 1925 Back to America, 1930–1931 Oxford, May 1931 America, 1931–1932 America, 1932–1933

Death

An Account of Einstein’s Last Days by Helen Dukas Removal of the Brain Last Will and Testament

Part II. A Life in Science

Annus Mirabilis Assistants Collaborators Colleagues

Friedrich (Fritz) Adler Niels Bohr Marie Curie Arthur Stanley Eddington Kurt Gödel Fritz Haber David Hilbert Paul Langevin Max von Laue Philipp Lenard H. A. Lorentz Walther Nernst J. Robert Oppenheimer Paul Painlevé Wolfgang Pauli Max Planck Willem de Sitter Arnold Sommerfeld

Concepts

Action-at-a-Distance—Quantum Teleportation Arrow of Time Asymmetric Theory Atoms Blackbody (Thermal) Radiation Bose-Einstein Condensate Bose-Einstein Statistics Brownian Motion Canal Rays Cosmological Constant Cosmology Determinism Distant Parallelism E = mc2 Ehrenfest’s Paradox Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox Einstein-Rosen Bridge Equipartition Theorem Fluctuations, Theory of Ghost Field Gravitational Waves Gravito-Magnetism Hole Argument Length Contraction Metric Overdetermination and the Unified Field Theory Photoelectric Effect Photon (Light Quantum) Principles of Relativity Theory Quantum Mechanics Radiometer Effect Relativity of Simultaneity Spacetime Specific Heat Capacity Third Law of Thermodynamics Time Time Dilation Wave-Particle Duality

Doctoral Dissertation Influential Scientific Forebears and Contemporaries Kinetic Theory Lectures, Major Scientific

Published Lectures Unpublished Lectures

Nobel Prize Patents and Inventions Philosophy of Science (Contributed by Thomas Ryckman, Stanford University) Quantum Theory Relativity Theory

Special Relativity General Relativity Anti-Relativity Campaign

Rivals Scientific Papers Scientific Sidelights Solvay Conferences Thought Experiments Unified Field Theory

Early Unified Field Theories That Influenced Einstein

Part III. Identity and Principles

Civil and Human Rights Education: Einstein’s Views

“The Nightmare” “Uproar in the Lecture Hall”

Jewish Identity and Ties

Allegiances, Old and New Catalyst: The Role of Kurt Blumenfeld The Cultural Zionist Ideal Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Jewish Question and Its Resolution

Organizational Ties

Olympia Academy Bund Neues Vaterland (Association for a New Fatherland) International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists

Political Contexts

The First World War and the Weimar Republic, 1914–1932 Hitler in Power and the Second World War, 1933–1945 Postwar and Cold War, 1946–1955

Political Philosophy

Pacifism Socialism World Government

Religion

Appendixes

Appendix A. Select Books and Documentaries Appendix B. Copyright, Licensing, and Permissions Appendix C. Select Annotated Bibliography

References Index

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