DOC.
25
SOLVAY DISCUSSION REMARKS
519
AD
(FPAS)
and PD
(Verhandlungen 1914).
[72
206].
These discussion remarks
were presum-
ably
jotted
down
by
the
participants as
immediate
responses
to
the lectures
on
which
they
commented. Collected
by
the secretaries of
the first
Solvay Congress, they appeared
a
year
later
in
French translation
in
Rapports
1912
and
in
slightly
modified form
in
the
original
German
three
years
later
in
Verhandlungen
1914.
Einstein's
comments
are
written
in
black ink
on slips
of
paper
of
varying quality;
these
slips
have been inserted
in
one
of
two notebooks,
the
first
page
of
which contains the
inscription: "Registre
contenant
des
pieces
manuscrites
concernant les
premiers Congres de
physique
Solvay offert
a l'Academie
des Sciences
en
la
seance
du
19
decembre
1951
par
Maurice
de Broglie."
The secretaries of the
Congress assigned
a
number
to
each discussion
contribution,
corresponding
to
the order of the interventions
during
the Con-
gress.
This
number,
written in red
pencil, is legible
for
most
of Einstein's
manuscript
fragments.
The discussion
fragments
are
preceded
by
editorial
commentary,
which
gives
the
name
of
the
lecturer,
summarizes the
content
of the lecture and the discussion
to
which Einstein
responds,
provides
the number of the
fragments assigned
by
the
secretaries of the
Congress
where avail-
able, notes
the
placement
of the relevant
text in
Verhandlungen
1914
and
in Rapports
1912,
and
characterizes variations
between
the
manuscript
and the version
in
Verhandlungen
1914.
Where
discussion remarks do
not exist in
manuscript
form,
the
text is
based
on
Verhandlungen
1914.
Where
there
is
evidence that Einstein intervened before the
publication
of
a
discussion
remark,
it
is pointed
out
and
characterized.