62
DOCS.
87-89 FEBRUARY
1908
You
are greatly
mistaken,
esteemed
colleague,
if
you
think that
I have not
been
doing
sufficient
justice
to
your
papers.
I
champion
you
wherever
I
can,
and
it
is
my
wish
to
be
given
the
opportunity
to
propose
you
for
a
theoretical
professorship
in
Germany
quite
soon.
I also asked
you
for the
fluorescence
paper
with this in
mind.[6] I
leave it
to
you
to
determine the date of
delivery
of
your manuscript.
The
papers
in
question
are
by
Nichols,
and the
originals can
be
found
in
Phys.
Rev.
18, 19,
20.[7]
With the
greatest respect,
yours very truly,
J.
Stark
88.
To Johannes
Stark
Bern,
22
February
1908
Highly
esteemed Professor
Stark:
If
I
regretted
even
before the
receipt
of
your
letter[1]
that
I
let
a
petty
impulse goad
me
into
making
that remark about
priority
in the matter in
question,
your
detailed letter
showed
me
all
the
more
how
misplaced my sensitivity
was.
People
who have
been
granted
the
privilege
of
contributing
to
the
progress
of science should not
let their
pleasure
in
the
fruits
of
joint
labor
be
spoiled by
such
things.
Your
kind
personal
remarks
gave
me
much
pleasure.
It would
please
me
if I could
talk
with
you
about
physics one
of these
days.
Perhaps
this could
occur
during
this
year's
Naturforschertag,
at
which I will be
present
if
at
all
possible.[2]
With the
greatest respect,
yours very truly,
A.
Einstein
89.
From Albert
Gobat
Bern,
28
February
1908
To
Mr.
Albert
Einstein,
Ph.D., Bern, Aegertenstr. 53
Venia docendi
Pursuant
to
your petition
of June
1907,[1]
and
based
on
the
expert opinion
of
the
Philosophical
Faculty,[2] we
grant
you,
as
prescribed
by
law,
the
venia docendi for
theoretical
physics,
and invite
you
to start
your
academic
activity
with
an
inaugural