1000 CALENDAR 1916
December 22 At Rubens’s
Wednesday colloquium presents
the second
part
of
a
lecture
on
his
theory
of
gravitation.
Provenance:
entry
of
this date in
Walter
Schottky Agenda
1915,
GyMDM, Schottky
Nachlaß.
December 29
1-page
AKS to Minna Stern in Frankfurt
am
Main. Thanks
her for
pears
delivered
by
Pauline Einstein. The
postcard
is
addressed
"Frau Minna
Stern
p.
Adr.
d.
H.
F.
Heinemann
Bergweg
8
Frankfurt
a/M,"
and
postmarked
"29.
12. 15."
On the
reverse
is
a
photo
of the
Königlich
Technische Hoch-
schule,
Charlottenburg.
Provenance: Cohasco auction cata-
logue
32
(31
October
1991),
lot 301.
[78
910].
1916
January
13
Communicates
Schwarzschild
1916a
at
the
plenary
session
of
the
PAW.
January
14
Delivers lecture
to
the DPG
on substantiating
the determina-
tion
by
Tetrode and Sackur
of
the
entropy
constant:
"Zur
Begründung
der Tetrode-Sackurschen
Bestimmung
der
Entropiekonstanten"
which
may
be
a
variant
of
"On the
Theory
of Tetrode
and Sackur
for the
Entropy
Constant"
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
26).
Provenance: Deutsche
Physikalische
Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen
18 (15
February
1916),
nos.
2-3,
p.
41.
January
20 1-page
proposal
to award the Leibniz Gold Medal for 1916
to Otto
von
Schjerning,
Director of
the Kaiser-Wilhelm-
Akademie
für das
Militärärztliche
Bildungswesen, signed
among
others
by
Einstein. Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-X, Vol.
5,
p.
72.
[84 010].
The
printed
announcement
of
the
award,
February 10,
1916, is
also available. Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-X,
Vol.
5,
p.
75.
[84 013].
February 3
Submits
"A
New Formal
Interpretation
of
Maxwell’s Field
Equations
of
Electrodynamics" (Vol. 6,
Doc.
27) at
the
ple-
nary
session
of
the
PAW.
February
6
Proposes
divorce from Mileva Einstein-Maric after
a sepa-
ration
of
a year
and
a
half.
February
7
The Bund "Neues Vaterland"
is
outlawed for the duration
of
the
war.
February
10
Nomination
of
Otto Schott
as corresponding
member in the
PAW "in the field
of
technology,"
submitted
among
others
by
Einstein
(not
original signature).
Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-III, Vol. 136,
p.
126.
[83
937].