(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,”
of London, editorial, Nov. 7, 1919.
3
.
, Nov. 9, 1919.
4
. Brian 1996, 100, from Meyer Berger,
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951), 251–252.
5
.
, Nov. 9, 1919.
6
. The
deserves praise, of course, for taking the theory seriously.
7
. “Einstein Expounds His New Theory,”
, 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
.
, Dec. 4 and 21, 1919.
12
.
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.
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