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The authors are pleased to thank a number of individuals who made important contributions
to
The Man Who Stalked Einstein
.

Foremost among these is Pam Wexler Hillman, who listened to her husband read the entire
book aloud, chapter by chapter, sometimes more than once, before turning out the lights
at night. Her comments helped identify ambiguous and hard-to-understand passages and
improved the quality of the writing.

None of us had ever had an agent for anything, but serendipity led us to a great one.
Claire Gerus believed in the project from the beginning, encouraged us, advised us
through the writing process, and continues to serve our interests in this and future
projects.

We were assigned a wonderful editor, lost him following a buyout of our initial publisher,
and found him again. Jon Sternfeld’s vision matched our own. Perhaps more important,
he has a remarkable knack for simultaneously encouraging our best work while pointing
out how something could be improved. Absent Jon’s efforts, this book would be a lesser
work.

We are grateful for the efforts on our behalf of Ronald Coleman and his colleagues
at the library of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for their assistance in getting
us started on the research that eventually led to this book.

Professors Hans Ringertz and Per Carlson helped us to connect with Professor Karl
Grandin, director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science Center for the History of
Science, who provided us with background on Philipp Lenard’s Nobel Prize and shared
Lenard’s letter to the Academy disputing Einstein’s selection for the 1921 Nobel Prize.

Dr. Alan Matsumoto, chair of the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging at the
University of Virginia, encouraged the writing of this book and supported the endeavor.

Dr. Wilhelm Fuessl, head of the archives of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, granted
us access to archived boxes of Lenard’s personal documents and laboratory books. Some
of this material found its way into these pages. Brian Stamm translated into English
a critical journal article by Charlotte Schoenbeck, “Albert Einstein und Philipp Lenard:
Antipoden im Spannungsfeld von Physik und Zeitgeschichte.”

Finally, we thank the Charlottesville, Virginia, writing critique group to which Bruce
belonged for a number of years—Sharon Hostler, Susan Guerrant, Gerry Kruger, Marian
Dewalt, Peggy Brown, Sharon Davies, and Linn Harrison—who did their best to help him
learn to write.