xiv PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD this first volume goes into production the future of the project seems as- sured, with the McGraw endowment for the editor's salary, with major grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and with a series of significant grants from Switzerland, where Professor Einstein did his early work. These grants, obtained largely through the efforts of Professors Res Jost and Konrad Osterwalder of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, are from the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, the Dr. Tomalla Stiftung, and from the Canton of Aargau where Einstein went to school. Generous gifts have also been made by the Einstein Estate, by Mr. Robert A. Hefner III of Oklahoma City, and by the Estates of Louise R. Berman and William H. Schwartz. The Hebrew University and Princeton University Press are grateful for this help. The contributions acknowledged above have been essential to this pro- ject. We would like also to thank several individuals, in some cases within the supporting institutions, who have helped through their personal ef- forts and understanding. They are: Dr. Harold C. Cannon, Mr. Philip S. Carchman, Dean Aaron Lemonick, Professor Arthur S. Link, Mrs. Yvette Miller, Dr. Ronald J. Overmann, Dr. Albert Rees, Mr. Robert G. Sugarman, and Professor Arthur S. Wightman. Members of the staff of Princeton University Press will not be named here, but all of us who have worked on this project have considered it a challenge and a privilege. It is perhaps appropriate to end this Publisher's Foreword with an ex- pression of our hopes for this edition of Albert Einstein's Papers. The Trustees of Princeton University Press, especially their president, Mr. Harold W. McGraw, Jr., have made a deep and far-reaching commitment to it. Einstein expressly stated his wish that there should be no physical monument or memorial to him we believe that his Papers are his monument and his memorial. He had a sense of history and knew the value of his own work. He dedicated himself not only to science but to human welfare in the broadest sense. He had and continues to have immense influence. We hope that this edition of his Papers will lead to a fuller understanding of the extraordinary human being that Albert Einstein was-his ways of thinking, his place in his time, his contributions to knowledge, his efforts for mankind. Princeton University Press July 1986
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