CALENDAR 1915 995
January
19
3-page
TTrL
and
proposal by
Felix Ehrenhaft
to
the Nobel
committee
nominating
Einstein
for Nobel
Prize,
citing
work
in Brownian motion and in
special
and
general relativity.
Typed
cover
sheet attached. Provenance:
SSRAS,
Center
for
History
of
Science, 1916,
Fysik, pp.
143-146.
[83 037,
83 038].
February
6
"Expert Opinion on Legal Dispute
between Anschütz & Co.
and
Sperry Gyroscope Company"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
12).
February
19
Lectures to the DPG
on a
direct
proof
of
Ampère’s
molecu-
lar
currents. Provenance: Deutsche
Physikalische
Gesell-
schaft. Verhandlungen
17
(28
February
1915), no.
4,
p.
63.
Report
also
published
in
Vossische
Zeitung
(25
February
1915), no. 102, Morning Edition,
p.
[2]. [84 062].
after
February
20
1-page
ALS to Hermann
Diels
or
Heinrich Morf. Has
urged
Georg
Nicolai to visit the
recipient
and discuss the under-
taking
mentioned in Doc. 57. Provenance:
GyMIZ,
ED
184,
vol. 41a. Written
on
the
verso
of
a printed calling
card:
"Prof. Dr. Albert Einstein
Mitglied
der Akademie der Wis-
senschaften
Berlin-Dahlem
Ehrenbergstr.
33." The suburb
and street have been
deleted,
and
"Wittelsbacherstr.
13." is
added in Einstein’s hand.
[83
506].
February
23
1-page
AKSX to Hans Tanner in Zurich. Einstein
promises
to write him
a good
recommendation for
a job as
mathemat-
ics
instructor
at the Kantonsschule Frauenfeld. The
postcard
is addressed to "Dr. Hans
Tanner,
Susenbergstr.
75
Zürich.,"
and
postmarked
"Berlin-Wilmersdorf
1
23.2.15
5-6N[ach-
mittags]."
Provenance: Andreas
Alther,
St. Gallen.
[76 163.1].
March 25 Lectures
"Über
den
Grundgedanken
der
allgemeinen
Rela-
tivitätstheorie und
Anwendungen
dieser Theorie in der
Astronomie"
to
the
physical-mathematical
class
of
the PAW.
Provenance:
Preußische
Akademie
der
Wissenschaften.
Sit-
zungsberichte (1915):
315.
Hermann
Struve
and
Karl
Schwarzschild comment
on
the
paper.
March 26
Appears
before Berlin
court
to
give expert patent opinion
in
Anschütz & Co.
vs. Sperry Company dispute.
April
2 With Ilse Einstein sends
a postcard greeting
to
Georg
Nico-
lai,
recently
exiled to the
garrison
town
of
Graudenz. The
postcard
represents an Eugen
Boermel
etching
of
a
German
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