DOCS.
634,
635
OCTOBER
1918 669
634. To Hans Albert Einstein
[Berlin,
17
October
1918]
My
dear
Albert,
Prof.
Zangger’s
information
was
out-of-date.
Now I
am
very happy
with
you
because
you
are
writing
to
me more
often.[1] How is
it
that
the
holidays
shriveled
up
into
two
miserable
days?
The confounded
flu is
on
the
loose
again;[2]
it’s
uncannily
rampant
here
as
well.
Unfortunately,
the
money
was
not sent
for
so
long
through
the fault
of
the
bank.[3]
I
have
complained
at
the bank
now.
If
you
all don’t have
anything
left, you
can
withdraw interest from
the
40
000
M
in the
meantime.[4]
By
the
time
you get
this
postcard
you
will
have received
the
money,
I
hope.
Now I
am definitely coming
in
February,
provided
I
am healthy.
From
now
on,
I
am
probably
going
to be in Zurich for two months
every
year,
in order
to
give
regular
lectures.[5]
Then
we’ll
see
each
other
more
than
before.
That
will
be
nice!
But
I
am
going
to
have
a
lot
of
work to do each
time,
since
I
shall have
to
read
three
lectures
a
week. I
hope
Tete does not catch
the
flu. How
satisfied
are
you
all with his
health? What
do
you
two
want
from
me
for Christmas? Now
there
will
be
peace,
I
hope.
Then
a
Wall
of
China won’t
exist
between
us
anymore
and
letters
will
arrive
quickly
again.
Warm
regards
to
you
all,
yours,
Papa.
635. To
Nobel Committee
for Physics of
the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Berlin
4.30, 5
Haberland
St.,
[before
18
October
1918][1]
Roy.
Academy
of Sciences.
Nobel
Committee
for
Physics.
Stockholm.
With
reference to
the
inquiry you
sent
me
regarding
the
Nobel Prize in
Physics
for
the
year
1919,
I
suggest
herewith
that the
prize
be
awarded to
Prof.
Max;
Planck for his achievements
in the
area
of
thermal
radiation, and
more
specifi-
cally,
for
the
two
papers:
“Ueber das Gesetz der
Energieverteilung
im Normal-
spektrum”
[“On
the
Energy
Distribution
Law in
the
Normal
Spectrum”] (Drude’s
Annalen, pp. 553-563,
1901);[2]
“Ueber die
Elementarquanta
der Materie und der
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