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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 13 : The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, January 1922 - March 1923 (English Translation Supplement) - Albert Einstein

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 13

The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, January 1922 - March 1923 (English Translation Supplement)

By: Albert Einstein, Diana Kormos Buchwald (Editor), Jzsef Illy (Editor), Professor Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Editor), Tilman Sauer (Editor)

Paperback | 2 January 2013

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The fifteen months covered in this latest volume are punctuated by the assassination of Einstein's friend, the German foreign minister Walther Rathenau, which leads Einstein to fear for his own safety. He decides to depart Berlin, and briefly contemplates abandoning academic life altogether. In his detailed and poetic travel diary for his trip to the Far East, Palestine, and Spain - published here for the first time - Einstein makes no note of receiving the news that he has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among his numerous writings during this period, a paper on the Stern-Gerlach experiment, written with Paul Ehrenfest, shows with uncompromising clarity that the experiment posed a problem that could not be solved by contemporary quantum theory and anticipates, in a sense, what later would become known as the quantum measurement problem.
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"Overall, this is a fascinating book (as is the entire series of The Collected Papers) revealing lesser-known aspects and moments of Einstein's multifarious activities as a mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician, and social and political activist. In fact, anyone interested in the life and work of this unique personality should acquire not only the present volume but the entire series."--Theophanes Grammenos, Mathematical Reviews Clippings

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