1016 CALENDAR 1918
is
"From Dr.
L.
Silberstein
4,
Anson Rd. Cricklewood Lon-
don N.W.2." The
postmark
reads "London E.S.7 6.PM
15
JA 18." Provenance: IsJHU.
[21
040].
January
17
1-page
TTrL from Emil
Warburg
to
the Nobel committee
nominating
Einstein for Nobel
Prize, citing
work in
quan-
tum
theory, relativity theory,
and
gravitation. Typed cover
sheet attached. Provenance: SSRAS, Center for
History
of
Science, 1918,
Fysik, pp.
187-188.
[83 044].
According
to
Pais
1982,
pp.
507-508, further
proposals are
made
by
Wil-
helm
Wien, Laue,
Edgar Meyer,
and Stefan
Meyer
and
mentioned in the
Report
of
the Committee.
January
20
2-page
PTr
marked
"secret"
from
von Berge,
Chief of
Staff,
Oberkommando in den Marken, to
the
Police President
of
Berlin,
informing
him that
passport applications by
well-
known
pacifists
and radical Social Democrats need
prior
approval
from the
military
command.
For
the blacklist
including
Einstein,
drawn
up by
the
Berlin
police, see entry
of
January
29. Provenance: Kirsten
and
Treder
1979a,
pp.
198-199.
January
21 Von
Siemens informs him
of
the affirmative resolution
of
the
trustees
on
Freundlich’s contract
(see
Doc.
441).
January
23
1-page
ALS
to
Secretariat
of
the
physical-mathematical
class
of
the
PAW (Max Planck).
Einstein evaluates
a
booklet
by
Friedrich
Gimler,
submitted
on
December
19,
1917,
as
follows:
"Ich habe das
mir
zur
Einsicht
übersandte Büch-
lein,
betitelt
‘Hinweis
auf
die
Erfindung
des Messens’ auf-
merksam
durchgelesen.
Es
war
mir aber nicht
möglich,
irgend
etwas davon
zu begreifen.
Ich bin ziemlich über-
zeugt,
dass dies
jedem
anderen auch
so ergehen
wird. Es
scheint
mir
daher
richtig, wenn
niemand
mehr
dazu
veran-
lasst
wird,
Zeit
darauf
zu
verwenden." Provenance:
GyBAW,
II-VI,
Vol. 121 ("wertlose
Einsendungen"),
p.
107.
[83 988].
January
25
2-page
TLS from Ernst
Ludwig
in Frankfurt
requests sup-
port
for the
development
of
a temperature gauge, enclosing
a 3-page offprint
in
response
to the KWI announcement in
the
Frankfurter
Zeitung.
His article
is
entitled
"Genügt
das
Thermometer
zum
Verständnis
der
Wärmewirkung,"
Wochenschrift für
Brauerei
(1918),
no.
8.
Provenance:
GyBP,
I. Abt.,
Rep.
34, Nr.
8, Mappe
E.
Ludwig. [77
857,
77
858].