INDEX
Italic
page
numbers indicate references to front
matter,
or
to editorial notes.
Page
numbers followed
by a
lowercase
"n"
indicate footnotes
to
Einstein documents.
With few
exceptions,
references
are
collected under the
appropriate English
head-
ing.
Certain
important
institutions,
organizations,
and
concepts are
also listed
un-
der their German
designations,
with
cross
references
to
the
corresponding English
terms.
"Albert Einstein"
is
abbreviated
to
"AE"
in
subentries.
Correspondence
cited in editorial material
is
listed
alphabetically by correspondent/recipient
fol-
lowing
the words
"correspondence
with"
(referring
to
a
group
of
letters
ex-
changed
with
AE)
and/or "letter(s)
from/to"
(referring
to
specific
letters).
Full
book titles
appear only
for
AE's
readings
in the
Olympia Academy.
A
separate
index
of
citations follows the main index.
Aargau
Kantonsschule, 42,
110
Aberration, 435;
relativistic
expression
for,
262,
295-297,
447, 486n; stellar, 255,
262,
297,
447, 486n
Abraham,
Max (1875-1922), 270, 306n,
307n,
309n,
523. See
also
Electron
Absorption,
142-143,
145,
167n; maximum,
143, 389,
405.
See
also
Light;
Radiation,
electromagnetic
Acceleration:
constant,
487n,
495;
influence
of,
on
rate
of
clock, 476-480; influence of,
on
shape
of
a
body,
476-480;
proper,
495n;
re-
lationship
to
gravitation,
274,
436, 476,
495
(see
also
Equivalence principle)
Action:
at
a
distance, 581;
no propagation
with
superluminal velocity,
424-425;
quantum
of
(see Elementary quantum; Quantum,
of
ac-
tion);
and
reaction,
114, 525,
527-528. See
also
Least
action,
principle
of
Addition
of
velocities,
law of
(Additionstheo-
rem
der
Geschwindigkeiten):
Newtonian,
257; relativistic,
290-292,
302,
444-446,
448,
569-570
Adiabatic
process.
See
Change
of
state,
adia-
batic
Aerodynamics,
430
Aerostatics,
430
Akademie
Olympia.
See
Olympia Academy
Alpha-particle, 577,
586
Ampere,
Andre-Marie (1775-1836),
xxv
Angular
momentum,
522
Annalen
der
Physik.
See
Einstein, Albert,
read-
ing
of, Annalen
der
Physik
Anschaulichkeit,
xxvi,
540
Approximations,
386-387.
See
also
Limit,
Newtonian
Area law
(Flächensatz),
410
Asymmetries.
See
Electrodynamics
of
moving
bodies;
Symmetries
Atomic
hypothesis.
See Atomic-molecular
hy-
pothesis
Atomic
theory:
of
electricity,
177-178,
208,
222,
504,
585;
of
matter, 51,
177-178,
208,
222,
504, 586. See also
Quanta
Atomic-molecular
hypothesis,
xviii, xix, 46,
51, 95n-96n, 172,
207-208,
218,
221,
396n;
Mach's views
on reality
of, 207, 218;
nine-
teenth-century
debates
on
reality
of, 207; Ost-
wald's
views
on
reality
of, 207,
218. See
also Atoms
Atoms:
of
action, 585;
as
carriers
of
heat, 405;
degrees
of
freedom
of, 383;
of
electricity
(see
Electrons;
Quanta,
of electric
charge);
existence
of
(see
Atomic-molecular
hypothe-
sis);
kinetic
theory
of
(see
Kinetic
theory,
of
atoms); as mass points,
351.
See
also
Molec–