1004 CALENDAR 1916
October
19
"On Friedrich Kottler’s
Paper:
‘On Einstein’s
Equivalence
Hypothesis
and Gravitation’"
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
40).
October 24
1-page
TLS from Theodor
Lewald,
President
of
the
board
of
trustees
(Kuratorium)
of
the
PTR,
to Prussian
Minister of
the
Interior,
proposing
to elect Einstein
as
member
of
the
board, citing
Einstein’s work
on Ampère’s
molecular
cur-
rents. Provenance:
Gy-Ar(P),
RMdI, Nr.
13148,
pp.
223-
224.
[81
964].
October 26 Submits "Hamilton’s
Principle
and the General
Theory
of
Relativity" (Vol.
6,
Doc.
41)
to
the
physical-mathematical
class of
the
PAW.
Attends
a meeting
of
a
commission
of
the PAW for the
Schwarzschild
succession,
in which Friedrich Küstner is
named
primo
loco,
and Gustav
Müller,
secundo loco. Ein-
stein
reports having
received
extremely positive
evaluations
of
Küstner
in
writing
from
De Sitter and
orally
from Jaco-
bus
Kapteyn.
Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-VI, Vol. 20,
p.
119a.
[83 947].
October 27 Commemorates the death
of
Gyozo Zemplén.
Delivers the
first
part
of
his
lecture
on
the
quantum theory
of
radiation.
Provenance: Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft.
Verhand-
lungen
18
(15
November
1916), nos.
13-14,
p.
367. The
lecture
was presumably
based
on
his
paper
"On the
Quan-
tum
Theory
of
Radiation"
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
38).
November
10
Delivers the second
part
of
lecture
to
the DPG
on
the
quan-
tum
theory
of
radiation. Provenance: Deutsche
Phys-
ikalische
Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen
18 (15
November
1916),
nos.
13-14,
p.
368.
November 23
3-page report
of
the
PAW
to
Prussian Minister
of
Education,
nominating
Friedrich Küstner
primo
loco and Gustav
Müller secundo loco for the
directorship
of
the
Astrophysi-
cal
Observatory
in Potsdam. Provenance:
GyBSa,
I. HA,
Rep.
76
Vc,
Sekt.
1,
Tit.
11,
Teil
2,
Nr.
6b, Vol.
8, pp.
14-15.
[83 196].
A
typed
draft
signed by
Einstein
and
the
other
members
of
the
appointment
commission
of
the
Academy
is
also available. Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-VI, Vol. 20,
pp.
122-123.
[83 949].
With
Rubens
supports
Planck’s
suggestion
in the
physical-
mathematical class of the PAW
that Arnold Sommerfeld’s
paper (Sommerfeld 1916a)
be awarded the Helmholtz Prize.
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