7 9 2 C H R O N O L O G Y 1 9 2 7 July 11 Travels to Geneva from Zurich. July 11–13 Attends meetings of the ICIC Subcommittee on Bibliography in Geneva. July 14 Arrives in Leukerbad from Geneva. before July 19 Sends greetings for the establishment of the Association of Latin American Students in Berlin (Berliner Tageblatt, 19 July 1927, ME). July 20–26 Attends Ninth Session of the ICIC in Geneva. July 27–29 Meets Michele Besso in Visp. July 28–29 Spends time with Besso in San Maurice and Berisal. before August 1 Travels to Zuoz. August 2 Joined by Eduard in Zuoz. August 3 Cosigns an appeal for mass demonstrations against the exe- cution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti by the British section of the International Class War Prisoners Aid (New York Times, 5 August 1927). August 8 Hikes with Eduard to Maloja and over Septimer Pass. ca. August 14 Returns to Berlin. before August 19 Sends telegram to Massachusetts governor Alvan T. Fuller to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti (Sentinel, 19 August 1927). August 31 Sends telegram in support of the establishment of a univer- sity in Davos (Vossische Zeitung, 1 September 1927, ME). September 1 Composes statement “On German Colonial Policy” for the journal Europäische Gespräche (Doc. 41). September 7 Declines offer to spend one year at Johns Hopkins University. September 17 Declines offer to join Princeton University as a research professor. September 28 Nominates Arthur Compton for the Nobel Prize. September 29 Attends service hosted by the Walther Rathenau Stiftung in memory of Rathenau’s sixtieth birthday at the Reichs- wirtschaftsrat in Berlin (Berliner Tageblatt, 30 September 1927, ME). before October 8 Sends message in support of appeal for funds by the British OZE (Jewish Daily Bulletin, 14 October 1927). before October 23 Travels to Brussels from Berlin via Cologne. October 23 Explores Brussels, including main cathedral and central square. October 24–29 Attends the Fifth Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons in Brussels.

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CHRONOLOGY Journals and newspapers without dates indicate an issue published on the day of the entry. See the List of Abbreviations for the abbreviations used here. 1927 June 1 or 2 Attends reception held by Foreign Minister Gustav Strese- mann at the Ordenspalais in Berlin. June 14 Attends dinner party at the house of Samuel Fischer along with Gerhard Hauptmann, Count Harry Kessler, and Alfred Kerr (see Kessler 2010, pp. 113–114). before June 19 Attends lecture on the invention of a “pulse resonator” by physiologist Friedrich Kraus at the Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft (see New York Times, 19 June 1927). before June 21 Berlin apartment burglarized by the Einstein family’s domestic, Martha von Sulminski, abetted by her fiancé. Cash, clothes, furs, jewels, and curtains worth 6,000 Msto- len and subsequently recovered (see Vossische Zeitung, 20 June 1927, EE Berliner Tageblatt, 21 June 1927, ME and Vorwärts, 21 June 1927). June 23 Attends exhibition opening in honor of Max Liebermann’s eightieth birthday at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (see Jüdische Presszentrale Zürich, 1 July 1927). Attends reception for Soviet scholars at the embassy of the USSR (see Berliner Tageblatt, 24 June 1927, EE). June 27 Attends rally of the Deutsches Komitee Pro Palästina in honor of Chaim Weizmann’s visit to Berlin at the Preus- sisches Herrenhaus (see Jüdische Rundschau, 1 July 1927). July 4 Elected foreign honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (“Minutes of Ordinary Meetings,” 4 July 1927, UkE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Acc. 13932, Vol. 3). July 8 Declines invitation to become Rhodes Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University. July 9 Arrives in Zurich.

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C H R O N O L O G Y 1 9 2 7 7 9 3 October 24 Attends Bragg’s report, followed by discussion and possibly Compton’s report in the afternoon. October 25 Attends morning reception, followed by Compton’s second report and discussion. Attends De Broglie’s report, followed by discussion in the afternoon. October 26 Attends Born and Heisenberg’s reports, followed by discus- sions in the morning, and Schrödinger’s report, followed by discussion in the afternoon. October 27 Attends general deliberations, including Bohr’s main contri- bution and discussions in the morning. Travels to Paris for centenary of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, inauguration at 8:30 P.M. in the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne. October 28 Returns to Brussels and Solvay proceedings in the morning. Delivers comments “The Essence of Quantum Mechanics” (Doc. 77), participates in the general discussion (up to and including Dirac’s remarks), and attends evening deliberations. October 29 Attends the general discussion, including an homage to Ernest Solvay’s widow. Attends luncheon with king and queen of Belgium. Travels to Liège to visit uncle Caesar Koch. before November 3 Returns to Berlin. November 13 Granted patent with Leo Szilard for the first cooler with electrodynamic pumping, DE563403. November 24 Presents “General Theory of Relativity and Equations of Motion” (Doc. 91). December “On German Colonial Policy” is published (Doc. 41). December 1 Participates in meeting to discuss establishment of the Rat zum Schutz der jüdischen Minderheitenrechte in Berlin (Jüdische Rundschau, 6 December 1927). December 3 Attends tea hosted by Elsa Einstein and organized by the Jüdische Waisenhilfe e. V., at which Siegfried Lehmann lec- tures on the work of the Ben Shemen orphanage in Palestine (Jüdische Rundschau, 6 December 1927). December 4 Granted patent of DE555413, a pump for the cooler, in Germany (Abs. 777). December 6 Participates in a charity event at the Hotel Kaiserhof for the Jüdische Altershilfe Groß-Berlin, where he plays works by Schubert and Beethoven on the violin, along with Bruno Eisner and Francesco von Mendelssohn 1928 (Jüdische Rundschau, 9 December 1927).

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