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Quantum_ Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - Manjit Kumar [200]

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The event was so popular that it has been repeated annually ever since. It begins not in October, but September. It lasts sixteen days and ends on the first Sunday in October.

18 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 158.

19 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 35.

20 With 6 being the highest mark, Einstein received the following marks: algebra 6, geometry 6, history 6, descriptive geometry 5, physics 5–6, Italian 5, chemistry 5, natural history 5, German 4–5, geography 4, artistic drawing 4, technical drawing 4, and French 3.

21 CPAE, Vol. 1, pp. 15–16.

22 Einstein (1949a), p. 17.

23 Einstein (1949a), p. 15.

24 Fölsing (1997), quoted pp. 52–3.

25 Overbye (2001), quoted p. 19.

26 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 123. Letter from Einstein to Mileva Maric, 16 February 1898.

27 Cropper (2001), quoted p. 205.

28 Einstein (1949a), p. 17.

29 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 162. Letter from Einstein to Mileva Maric, 4 April 1901.

30 CPAE, Vol. 1, pp. 164–5. Letter from Hermann Einstein to Wilhelm Ostwald, 13 April 1901.

31 CPAE, Vol. 1, pp. 164–5. Letter from Hermann Einstein to Wilhelm Ostwald, 13 April 1901.

32 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 165. Letter from Einstein to Marcel Grossmann, 14 April 1901.

33 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 177. Letter from Einstein to Jost Winteler, 8 July 1901.

34 The advert appeared in the Bundesblatt (Federal Gazette) of 11 December 1901. CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 88.

35 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 189. Letter from Einstein to Mileva Maric, 28 December 1901.

36 Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, founded the city in 1191. According to legend, Berchtold went hunting nearby and named the city Bärn after his first kill, a bear (Bär in German).

37 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 191. Letter from Einstein to Mileva Maric, 4 February 1902.

38 Pais (1982), quoted pp. 46–7.

39 Einstein (1993), p. 7.

40 CPAE, Vol. 5, p. 28.

41 Hentschel and Grasshoff (2005), quoted p. 37.

42 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 103.

43 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 103.

44 Highfield and Carter (1994), quoted p. 210.

45 See CPAE, Vol. 5, p. 7. Letter from Einstein to Michele Besso, 22 January 1903.

46 CPAE, Vol. 5, p. 20. Letter from Einstein to Conrad Habicht, 30 June–22 September 1905.

47 Hentschel and Grasshoff (2005), quoted p. 23.

48 CPAE, Vol. 1, p. 193. Letter from Einstein to Mileva Maric, 17 February 1902.

49 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 101.

50 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 104.

51 Fölsing (1997), quoted p. 102.

52 Born (1978), p. 167.

53 Einstein (1949a), p. 15.

54 Einstein (1949a), p. 17.

55 CPAE, Vol. 2, p. 97.

56 Einstein (1905a), p. 178.

57 Einstein (1905a), p. 183.

58 Einstein also used his quantum of light hypothesis to explain Stoke's law of photoluminescence and the ionisation of gases by ultraviolet light.

59 Mulligan (1999), quoted p. 349.

60 Susskind (1995), quoted p. 116.

61 Pais (1982), quoted p. 357.

62 During his Nobel Lecture, entitled 'The Electron and the light-quanta from the experimental point of view', Millikan also said: 'After ten years of testing and changing and learning and sometimes blundering, all efforts being directed from the first toward the accurate experimental measurement of the energies of emission of photoelectrons, now as a function of the temperature, now of wavelength, now of material, this work resulted, contrary to my own expectations, in the first direct experimental proof in 1914 of the exact validity, within narrow limits of experimental errors, of the Einstein equation, and the first direct photoelectric determination of Planck's constant h.'

63 CPAE, Vol. 5, pp. 25–6. Letter from Max Laue to Einstein, 2 June 1906.

64 CPAE, Vol. 5, pp. 337–8. Proposal for Einstein's Membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences, dated 12 June 1913 and signed by Max Planck, Walther Nernst, Heinrich Rubens and Emil Warburg.

65 Park (1997), quoted p. 208. Written in English, Opticks was first published in 1704.

66 Park (1997), quoted p. 208.

67 Park (1997), quoted p. 211.

68 Robinson

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