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die Theorie stimmt doch.”
23. Max Planck to Einstein, Oct. 4, 1919; Einstein to Max Planck, Oct. 23, 1919.
24. Zurich Physics Colloquium to Einstein, Oct. 11, 1919.
25. Einstein to Zurich Physics Colloquium, Oct. 16, 1919.
26. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925; New York: Free Press, 1997), 13. See also pp. 29 and 113.
27. The Times of London, Nov. 7, 1919; Pais 1982, 307; Fölsing, 443; Clark, 289.
28. The Times of London, Nov. 7, 1919.
29. Einstein 1949b, 31. Purchase of violin is in Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Dec. 10, 1919.
30. Douglas, 41; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1987), 117. (David Hilbert certainly would have been a third, though there were, of course, many others.) Chandrasekhar, who later
worked with Eddington, told Jeremy Bernstein he heard this directly from Eddington; Bernstein 1973, 192.
CHAPTER TWELVE: FAME
1. Clark, 309. For a good overview, see David Rowe, “Einstein’s Rise to Fame,” Perimeter Institute, Oct. 15, 2005, www.mediasite.com.
2. “Fabric of the Universe,”The Times of London, editorial, Nov. 7, 1919.
3. New York Times , Nov. 9, 1919.
4. Brian 1996, 100, from Meyer Berger, The Story of the New York Times (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951), 251–252.
5. New York Times , Nov. 9, 1919.
6. The New York Times deserves praise, of course, for taking the theory seriously.
7. “Einstein Expounds His New Theory,”New York Times , Dec. 3, 1919.
8. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Dec. 15, 1919.
9. Einstein to Marcel Grossmann, Sept. 12, 1920. Einstein went on to make the point to Grossmann that the issue, amid rising nationalism and
antiSemitism, had become politicized: “Their conviction is determined by what political party they belong to.”
10. Leopold Infeld, “To Albert Einstein on His 75th Birthday,” in Goldsmith et al., 24.
11. New York Times , Dec. 4 and 21, 1919.
12. The Times of London, Nov. 28, 1919.
13. Paul Ehrenfest to Einstein, Nov. 24, 1919; Maja Einstein to Einstein, Dec. 10, 1919.
14. Einstein to Max Born, Dec. 8, 1919; Einstein to Ludwig Hopf, Feb. 2, 1920.
15. C. P. Snow, “On Einstein,” in The Variety of Men (New York: Scribner’s, 1966), 108.
16. Freeman J. Dyson, “Wise Man,”New York Review of Books , Oct. 20, 2005.
17. Clark, 296.
18. Born 2005, 41.
19. Hedwig Born to Einstein, Oct. 7, 1920.
20. Max Born to Einstein, Oct. 13, 1920.
21. Max Born to Einstein, Oct. 28, 1920.
22. Einstein to Max Born, Oct. 26, 1920. Einstein wrote to Maurice Solovine, when the book actually appeared a few months later, that
Moszkowski was “abominable” and “wretched” and that “he committed a forgery” by using some of Einstein’s letters in an unauthorized
way to imply that Einstein had written an introduction to the book. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, Mar. 8 and 19, 1921. He was also
dismayed when he heard that Hans Albert had bought it, and said, “I was unable to prevent its publication, and it has caused me a lot of
grief ”; Einstein to Hans Albert Einstein, June 18, 1921. See also Highfield and Carter, 199.
23. Brian 1996, 114–116; Moszkowski, 22–58.
24. Born 2005, 41.
25. Frank 1947, 171–174.
26. Michelmore, 95; Fölsing, 485.
27. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Dec. 24, 1919.
28. Einstein, “My First Impressions of the U.S.A.,”Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant , July 4, 1921, CPAE 7, appendix D; Einstein 1954, 3–7.
29. Einstein, “Einstein on His Theory,”The Times of London, Nov. 28, 1919.
30. Einstein to Hedwig and Max Born, Jan. 27, 1920; Einstein to Arthur Eddington, Feb. 2, 1920. Einstein graciously told an embarrassed
Eddington, “The tragicomical outcome of the medal affair [is] insignificant compared to the self-sacrificing and fruitful labors you and your
friends devoted to the theory of relativity and its verification.”
31. Frida Bucky, quoted in Brian 1996, 230.
32. Einstein, “The World as I See It” (1930), in Einstein 1954, 8. A different translation is in Einstein 1949a, 3.
33. This appraisal appears with slight variations in Infeld, 118; Infeld, “To Albert Einstein on His 75th Birthday,” in Goldsmith et al., 25; and in
the Bulletin of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, July 1954.
34. Editorial note by Max Born in Born 2005, 127.
35. Abraham Pais, “Einstein and the Quantum Theory,”Reviews of Modern Physics (Oct. 1979). See also Pais, “Einstein, Newton and
Success,” in French, 35; Pais 1982, 39.
36. Einstein, “Why Socialism?,”Monthly Review , May 1949, reprinted in Einstein 1954, 151.
37. Erik Erikson, “Psychoanalytic Reflections on Einstein’s Centenary,” in Holton and Elkana, 151.
38. This idea is from Barbara Wolff of the Einstein archives at Hebrew University.
39. Levenson, 149.
40. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Jan. 17, 1922; Fölsing, 482.
41. Einstein to Eduard Einstein, June 25, 1923, Einstein family correspondence trust, unpublished, letter in possession of Bob Cohn, who
provided me a copy. Cohn is a collector of Einstein material. The letters in his possession have been translated by Dr. Janifer
Stackhouse. I am grateful for their help.
42. Michelmore, 79.
43. Einstein to Mileva Mari , May 12, 1924, AEA 75-629.