PUBLISHER'S
FOREWORD
We
are
pleased to be able to
publish
this
companion
volume to the
documentary
edition of
The
Collected Papers of Albert
Einstein,
Volume 1,
thereby making
available
an
English translation
for those
readers who cannot
understand
the
original-language
documents. This
translation
volume is intended to be
only
a
supplement
to the
original
edition,
and therefore is available
only
to
purchasers
of the latter.
This
publication project
is separate from the
documentary-edition
project,
and the editors of the
documentary edition
are
not
responsible
for the
accuracy
of the
translations. The documents
were
translated
by Dr. Anna
Beck;
Dr. Peter Havas
was
our
consultant.
We
are
grateful
to them for their hard work and dedication to this
project.
We
are
also
pleased
to
acknowledge
a
grant
from the
National
Science
Foundation,
which made this
publication
possible.
In
particular,
we
thank Dr. Ronald Overman of the NSF for his continued
interest in
our
work.
Princeton
University
Press
March 1987
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