2 0 D O C U M E N T S 1 4 , 1 6 A P R I L 1 9 2 3
14. From William W. Campbell[1]
lickobservaory calif [12 April 1923]
= three pairs australia tahiti eclipse plates measured by campb[ell]
trumpler[2]
sixty two to eighty four stars each five of six measurements completely calculated
give einstein deflection between one point fifty nine and one point eighty six sec-
onds arc mean value one point seventy four
seconds[3]
= W.
W.[4]
campbell.
Translator’s note: Original written in English.
15. From Edith Clare Bryce Cram[1]
[New York, 12 April 1923]
[See documentary edition for English text.]
16. From Ludwik Silberstein[1]
[Rochester?] 15 April 1923
Dear Colleague,
For almost a year your terrestrial coordinates were unknown to me; I only heard
that you had left Berlin (to judge from the newspapers). Directly, I last heard from
you through my old friend & Berlin Univ. colleague
Nagaoka,[2]
who wrote me at
the end of Dec. 1922 from Tokyo that you were there and were being enthusiasti-
cally received. What he writes is characteristic, among other things: “Japanese pub-
lic is usually very cold to foreign scientific lecturers, but this time every nook and
corner of a large public lecture hall were occupied by the interested multitudes, and
Einstein was quite astonished at finding a large number of the crowd climbing up
even to the platform of the amphitheater, to listen to the words of the creator of the
principle of
relativity….[3]
Einstein remarked that never before was his theory so
highly appreciated by the public as in Japan!” I am naturally pleased to convey to
you these good sentiments by the Japanese. Whence the long digression.
Nagaoka wrote me that you are traveling from Japan to Jerusalem, and as I just
read that you are lecturing in Madrid in March, I conclude that you are on your
return homeward and am writing you.