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50. Seelig 1956a, 183; Frank 1947, 285; Clark, 743.<br />
51. New York Times , July 31, 1921.<br />
52. Einstein to Felix Frankfurter, May 28, 1921, AEA 36-210.<br />
53. See Ben Halpern, A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann and American Zionism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).<br />
54. Boston Herald , May 19, 1921.<br />
55. New York Times , May 18, 1921; Frank 1947, 185; Brian 1996, 129; Illy, 25–32.<br />
56. Hartford (Conn.) Daily Times, May 23, 1921. Also, Hartford Daily Courant , May 23, 1921.<br />
57. Cleveland Press , May 26, 1921.<br />
58. Illy, 185.<br />
59. Fölsing, 51.<br />
60. Einstein, “How I Became a Zionist,” interview in Jüdische Rundschau, June 21, 1921, conducted on May 30, CPAE 7: 57.<br />
61. Einstein to Mileva Mari , Aug. 28, 1921, Einstein family trust correspondence, letter in possession of Bob Cohn. On this trip, in deference<br />
to Elsa’s feelings, he decided at the last moment not to stay at Mari ’s apartment.<br />
62. Einstein to Walther Rathenau, Mar. 8, 1917; Walther Rathenau to Einstein, May 10, 1917.<br />
63. Reiser, 146, describes the Weizmann-Rathenau-Einstein discussions. See also Fölsing, 519; Elon, 364.<br />
64. Weizmann, 288; Elon, 268.<br />
65. Frank 1947, 192.<br />
66. Reiser, 145.<br />
67. Milena Wazeck, “Einstein on the Murder List,” in Renn 2005d, 222; Einstein to Max Planck, July 6, 1922, AEA 19-300.<br />
68. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, July 16, 1922, AEA 21-180.<br />
69. Einstein to Marie Curie, July 4, 1922, AEA 34-773; Marie Curie to Einstein, July 7, 1922, AEA 34-775.<br />
70. Fölsing, 521.<br />
71. Nathan and Norden, 54.<br />
72. Hermann Struck to Pierre Comert, July 12, 1922; Nathan and Norden, 59. (Einstein sent word to League press official Comert through their<br />
mutual friend, the painter Struck.)<br />
73. Nathan and Norden, 70.<br />
74. Einstein, “Travel Diary: Japan-Palestine-Spain,” AEA 29-129. All quotes in this section from Einstein’s diary are from this document.<br />
75. Joan Bieder, “Einstein in Singapore,” 2000, www.onthepage.org/outsiders/<strong>einstein</strong>_in_singapore.htm.<br />
76. Fölsing, 527; Clark, 368; Brian 1996, 143; Frank 1947, 199.<br />
77. Einstein to Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, Dec. 12, 1922, AEA 75-620.<br />
78. Frank 1947, 200.<br />
79. Einstein, “Travel Diary: Japan-Palestine-Spain,” AEA 29-129.<br />
80. Clark, 477–480; Frank 1947, 200–201; Brian 1966, 145; Fölsing, 528–532.<br />
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: NOBEL LAUREATE<br />
1. Svante Arrhenius to Einstein, Sept. 1, 1922, AEA 6-353; Einstein to Svante Arrhenius, Sept. 20, 1922, AEA 6-354.<br />
2. Pais 1982, 506–507; Elzinga, 82–84.<br />
3. R. M. Friedman 2005, 129. See also Friedman’s book, The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science (New York: Henry<br />
Holt, 2001), especially chapter 7, “Einstein Must Never Get a Nobel Prize!”; Elzinga; Pais 1982, 502.<br />
4. Pais 1982, 508; Hendrik Lorentz and Dutch colleagues to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 24, 1920; Niels Bohr to the Swedish Academy, Jan.<br />
30, 1920; Elzinga, 134.<br />
5. Brian 1996, 143, citing research and interviews by the writer Irving Wallace for his novel The Prize.<br />
6. Elzinga, 144.<br />
7. R. M. Friedman, 130. See also Pais 1982, 508.<br />
8. Arthur Eddington to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 1, 1921.<br />
9. Pais 1982, 509; R. M. Friedman, 131; Elzinga, 151.<br />
10. Marcel Brillouin to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 1922; Arnold Sommerfeld to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 11, 1922.<br />
11. Christopher Aurivillius to Einstein, Nov. 10, 1922. In another translation and version, the actual Nobel citation sent to Einstein includes the<br />
phrase “independent of the value that (after eventual confirmation) may be credited to the relativity and gravitation theory.”<br />
12. Elzinga, 182.<br />
13. Svante Arrhenius, Nobel Prize presentation speech, Dec. 10, 1922, nobel prize.org/physics/laureates/1921/press.html.<br />
14. Einstein, “Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity,” Nobel lecture, July 11, 1923.<br />
15. Einstein to Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, Dec. 22, 1922, AEA 75-620. The full story of the Nobel money was complex and over the<br />
years caused considerable disputes, as became clear in letters between Einstein and Mari released in 2006. According to the divorce<br />
agreement, the Nobel money was to go to a Swiss bank account. Mari was supposed to have use of the interest, but she could spend the<br />
capital only with Einstein’s consent. In 1923, after consultation with a financial adviser, Einstein decided to place only part of the money in<br />
Switzerland and have the rest invested in an American account. That scared Mari and caused frictions that were calmed by friends. With<br />
Einstein’s consent she bought a Zurich apartment house in 1924 using the Swiss money and a big loan. The rents covered the loan<br />
payments, as well as the maintenance of the house and a part of the family’s livelihood. Two years later, again with Einstein’s consent,<br />
Mari bought two more houses using another 40,000 Swiss francs from the Nobel money and an additional loan. The two new houses<br />
turned out to be bad investments and had to be sold to avoid endangering ownership of the first house, where Mari lived with Eduard. In<br />
the meantime, the Great Depression in America reduced the value of the account and investments made there. Einstein continued to pay<br />
considerable sums to Mari and Eduard, but Mari ’s fears for her financial security were understandable. At the end of the 1930s, Einstein<br />
created a holding company to buy from Mari the remaining apartment house, where she still lived, and to take over her debts in order to<br />
save the house from being repossessed by the bank. Mari could continue to live in the same apartment and receive the excess rental<br />
proceeds. In addition, Einstein sent a monthly contribution for Eduard’s support. This arrangement lasted until the late 1940s, when Mileva<br />
was no longer able to care for the house and the income from the rents no longer covered the expenses. With Einstein’s consent Mari