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mediary (see Bruno Bloch, Dekan der med. Fakultät, to Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zurich, 20
May 1920, SzZSa, U 110 b .3, no. 59). Two candidates for the position on whom Einstein passed judg-
ment (see Einstein to Alfred Wolfer, 20 December 1919 [Vol. 9, Doc. 223]) had already been rejected
for the position (see Alfred Wolfer, Dekan, to Erziehungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich, 15 March
1920, SzZSa, U 110 b .3, no. 59).
Zangger had served as an intermediary in negotiations by the authorities of the Swiss Federal In-
stitute of Technology with both Einstein and Peter Debye (see Heinrich Zangger to Einstein, before
15 December 1919 [Vol. 9, Doc. 215]).
[6]A spectrophotometer produced by Adam Hilger Ltd, London.
[7]Zangger 1922.
[8]Samuel E. Sheppard (1882–1948).
[9]Zangger had published on the topic of poison gas during World War I (see Zangger 1914a and
1914b).
[10]In 1915 in Mümliswil, canton of Solothurn, a celluloid explosion occurred in the local comb
factory (see Zangger 1916).
[11]Greetings and postscript added in Zangger’s hand.
[12]Greetings added in postscript in Victor Henri’s hand are omitted.
62. From Vladimir K. Arkad’ev[1]
[Moscow,] 22 VI 1920
Hochgeehrter Herr Professor!
Mit grossem Interesse haben wir Ihre neue Arbeiten gelesen, die in meine Hän-
den von Volkskomissär für Kultur u. Unterricht Lunatscharski gerahten
sind.[2]
In Moskauer Universität wird im Anfang September 1920 Este Versammlung
der Russichen Physikalischen Assoziation statt finden. In de Programm u. and. ist
die Frage über die Verbindung mit den Ausländischen Gelehrten
eingeschalten.[3]
Mit besten Grüssen Ihr ganz ergebener
W. Arkadiew.
Meine Adresse: Moskau, Pretschistenka 27, kv 7, (über Berlin, Kriegsministerium
U. 5), für Prof. W. Arkadiew, Schriftführer der I Versamml. d. Russ. Phys. Associa-
tion.[4]
ALS. [43 113].
[1]Vladimir Konstantinovich Arkad’ev (1884–1953) was Professor of Physics at the Economics
Institute in Moscow.
[2]Anatolii Vasil’evich Lunacharskii (1875–1933) was the first Soviet minister of education as of
1917. His official title was Commissar of Popular Enlightenment.
[3]The Russian Association of Physicists had been founded in February 1919 and held its first
meeting in September 1920, organized by the Moscow Physical Society. At the meeting, lack of fund-
ing for physical research, international isolation, and the interruption of publications were addressed;
more than five hundred participants attended and over one hundred papers on a multitude of topics
were presented (see Josephson 1991, pp. 77–80).
[4]In the original, “kv,” the designation for apartment (“kvartir”), is written in Cyrillic script.