CALENDAR 1915
999
Oct
16-Mar
15,
1916 Offers
a course on
statistical mechanics and Boltzmann’s
principle
at the
University
of
Berlin,
Thursdays,
2-4
P.M.
Provenance: Berlin Verzeichnis 1915b.
Oct
23-Nov
11 "My Opinion
of
the War"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
20).
November
4 Submits
"On
the
General
Theory
of
Relativity"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
21)
at the
plenary
session
of
the
PAW.
November
11
Submits "On the General
Theory
of
Relativity (Adden-
dum)"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
22)
to the
physical-mathematical
class
of
the
PAW.
November
15
"Comment
on
Our
Paper: ‘Experimental
Proof of
Ampère’s
Molecular
Currents’"
(with W.
J. de
Haas)
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
23).
November
18
Submits
"Explanation
of
the Perihelion Motion
of
Mercury
from the General
Theory
of
Relativity”(Vol. 6,
Doc.
24)
at
the
plenary
session
of
the
PAW.
November 25 Submits "The Field
Equations
of
Gravitation"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
25)
to the
physical-mathematical
class
of
the
PAW.
November 28
Conversation
with
Hermann
Struve,
Director of
the Obser-
vatory
in
Potsdam,
in
which he
requests
that Erwin
Freund-
lich be
permitted
to perform
experiments
there for
testing
general relativity.
December
8
At Heinrich Rubens’s
Wednesday colloquium, presents
the
first
part
of
a
lecture
on
his
theory
of
gravitation.
Prove-
nance: entry
of
this date in Walter
Schottky Agenda
1915,
GyMDM, Schottky
Nachlaß.
December
17
Excerpt
of
recommendation for Hans Tanner to the Kan-
tonsschule
Frauenfeld: "sehr
gut
z.
Gymnasiallehrer geeig-
net
durch solides Wissen
u. Mitteilungsgabe
und heiteres
menschenfreundl. offenes Wesen." Provenance:
SzFSa,
Anmeldungen
für
die Mathematiklehrerstelle
am Gymna-
sium, Frühjahr 1916,
Nr.
19,
4’730’10.
[83 523].
Speaks
to
the DPG
on
the
general theory
of
relativity
and
on
its
explanation
of
the
motion
of
the
perihelion
of
Mercury.
Provenance: Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Verhand-
lungen
17
(30
December
1915), no.
24,
p.
437.
December
18
Elected
corresponding
member
of
the
Royal Society
of
Göt-
tingen
after his
nomination
on
December
5
by
Hilbert,
Klein, Runge, Voigt,
and Wiechert. Provenance:
GyGöAW,
Chron.
2.1,
p.
413
and
GyGöAW,
Pers.
20,
p.
913.
[83
526,
83 525].