Goldsmith et al., 25; and in the
, July 1954.
34
. Editorial note by Max Born in Born 2005, 127.
35
. Abraham Pais, “Einstein and the Quantum Theory,”
(Oct. 1979). See also Pais, “Einstein, Newton and Success,” in French, 35; Pais 1982, 39.
36
. Einstein, “Why Socialism?,”
, May 1949, reprinted in Einstein 1954, 151.
37
. Erik Erikson, “Psychoanalytic Reflections on Einstein’s Centenary,” in Holton and Elkana, 151.
38
. This idea is from Barbara Wolff of the Einstein archives at Hebrew University.
39
. Levenson, 149.
40
. Einstein to Paul Ehrenfest, Jan. 17, 1922; Folsing, 482.
41
. Einstein to Eduard Einstein, June 25, 1923, Einstein family correspondence trust, unpublished, letter in possession of Bob Cohn, who provided me a copy. Cohn is a collector of Einstein material. The letters in his possession have been translated by Dr. Janifer Stackhouse. I am grateful for their help.
42
. Michelmore, 79.
43
. Einstein to Mileva Mari
, May 12, 1924, AEA 75-629.
44
. Einstein to Michele Besso, Jan. 5, 1924, AEA 7-346; Einstein to Hans Albert Einstein, Mar. 7, 1924.
45
. Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, Mar. 1920; Folsing, 474; Highfield and Carter, 192; Clark, 243.
46
. Paul Johnson,
(New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 1–3. This section is adapted from an essay I wrote when Einstein was chosen as
Person of the Century: “Who Mattered and Why,”
, Dec. 31, 1999. For a critique of this idea, which I also draw on in this section, see David Greenberg, “It Didn’t Start with Einstein,”
, Feb. 3, 2000, www.slate.com/id/74164/. Miller 2001 is also an important resource.
47
. Charles Poor, professor of celestial mechanics, Columbia University, in the
, Nov. 16, 1919.
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