Einstein (115 page)

Authors: Walter Isaacson

BOOK: Einstein

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. Einstein to Mileva Mari
, ca. July 7, 1901; Einstein to Jost Winteler, July 8, 1901.

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. Renn 2005a, 118. Renn’s source notes say, “I gratefully acknowledge the kindness of Mr. Felix de Marez Oyens, from Christie’s, who pointed my attention to the missing page of the letter by Einstein to Mileva Mari
, ca. 8 July 1901. As, unfortunately, no copy of the page is available to me, my interpretation had to be based on a raw transcription of the passage in question.”

47
. Einstein to Marcel Grossmann, Sept. 6, 1901.

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. Overbye, 82–84. This includes a good synopsis of the Boltzmann-Ostwald dispute.

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. Einstein, “On the Thermodynamic Theory of the Difference in Potentials between Metals and Fully Dissociated Solutions of Their Salts,” Apr. 1902. Renn does not mention this paper in his analysis of Einstein’s dispute with Drude, and instead focuses only on the June 1902 paper.

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. Einstein, “Kinetic Theory of Thermal Equilibrium and the Second Law of Thermodynamics,” June 1902; Renn 2005a, 119; Jos Uffink, “Insuperable Difficulties: Einstein’s Statistical Road to Molecular Physics,”
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
37 (2006): 38; Clayton Gearhart, “Einstein before 1905: The Early Papers on Statistical Mechanics,”
American Journal of Physics
(May 1990): 468.

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. Mileva Mari
to Helene Savi
, ca. Nov. 23, 1901; Einstein to Mileva Mari
, Nov. 28, 1901.

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. Einstein to Mileva Mari
, Dec. 17 and 19, 1901.

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. Receipt for the return of Doctoral Fees, Feb. 1, 1902, CPAE 1: 132; Fölsing, 88–90; Reiser, 69; Overbye, 91. From Einstein to Mileva Mari
, ca. Feb. 8, 1902: “I’m explaining to [Conrad] Habicht the paper I submitted to Kleiner. He’s very enthusiastic about my good ideas and is pestering me to send Boltzmann the part of the paper which relates to his book. I’m going to do it.”