Einstein: His Life and Universe

74

. Einstein, “Travel Diary: Japan-Palestine-Spain,” AEA 29-129. All quotes in this section from Einstein’s diary are from this document.

75

. Joan Bieder, “Einstein in Singapore,” 2000, www.onthepage.org/outsiders/einstein_in_singapore.htm.

76

. Folsing, 527; Clark, 368; Brian 1996, 143; Frank 1947, 199.

77

. Einstein to Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, Dec. 12, 1922, AEA 75-620.

78

. Frank 1947, 200.

79

. Einstein, “Travel Diary: Japan-Palestine-Spain,” AEA 29-129.

80

. Clark, 477–480; Frank 1947, 200–201; Brian 1966, 145; Folsing, 528–532.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: NOBEL LAUREATE

1

. Svante Arrhenius to Einstein, Sept. 1, 1922, AEA 6-353; Einstein to Svante Arrhenius, Sept. 20, 1922, AEA 6- 354.

2

. Pais 1982, 506–507; Elzinga, 82–84.

3

. R. M. Friedman 2005, 129. See also Friedman’s book,

The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science

(New York: Henry Holt, 2001), especially chapter 7, “Einstein Must Never Get a Nobel Prize!”; Elzinga; Pais 1982, 502.

4

. Pais 1982, 508; Hendrik Lorentz and Dutch colleagues to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 24, 1920; Niels Bohr to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 30, 1920; Elzinga, 134.

5

. Brian 1996, 143, citing research and interviews by the writer Irving Wallace for his novel

The Prize

.

6

. Elzinga, 144.

7

. R. M. Friedman, 130. See also Pais 1982, 508.

8

. Arthur Eddington to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 1, 1921.

9

. Pais 1982, 509; R. M. Friedman, 131; Elzinga, 151.

10

. Marcel Brillouin to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 1922; Arnold Sommerfeld to the Swedish Academy, Jan. 11, 1922.

11

. Christopher Aurivillius to Einstein, Nov. 10, 1922. In another translation and version, the actual Nobel citation sent to Einstein includes the phrase “independent of the value that (after eventual confirmation) may be credited to the relativity and gravitation theory.”

12

. Elzinga, 182.

13

. Svante Arrhenius, Nobel Prize presentation speech, Dec. 10, 1922, nobel prize.org/physics/laureates/1921/press.html.

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