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.
References
are
collected
under the
appropriate English heading.
"Albert
Einstein"
is abbreviated
to
"AE" in subentries.
Correspondence
cited in editorial material is
listed
alphabetically by
correspondent/recipient
following
the words
"correspon-
dence with"
(referring
to
a group
of
letters
exchanged
with
AE)
and/or "letter
from/to"
(referring
to
specific letters).
A
separate
index
of
citations follows the
main index.
Certain
important
institutions,
organizations,
and
concepts are
also listed under
their German
designations,
with cross-references
to
the
corresponding English
terms.
Aberration,
165-166
Absorption,
535-536,
547n; coefficient,
542-
543;
and
coherence, 540, 547n, [574];
and
emission, 457,
517,
535-536,
542, 558;
in-
frared,
503,
504n, 542,
547n;
of
radiation,
500,
504n, 506n, 540, 542; temperature
de-
pendence,
312n;
time factor
in,
504n,
541.
See
also
Radiation
Academie des
Sciences,
Paris,
519n
Acceleration,
xxviii-xxix, 6,
13-14, 22-24,
31, 81,
124-125,
143, 466; absolute, 487;
addition,
law
of
(Additionstheorem),
16;
of
electrons,
543;
and frames
of
reference,
175n,
480, 487. See
also
Mechanics;
Mo-
tion;
Relativity, principle
of
Action:
at
a
distance,
xix,
178,
178n,
252,
253n,
358;
equality
of
reaction
and, 316,
392;
quantum
of, 499, 510, 514n, 515;
and
reaction, 15,
42,
44, 136,
255-256,
257n,
360. See
also
Electromotive
action;
Mechan-
ics; Quantum theory
Adiabatic
principle.
See
Ehrenfest,
Paul
Adler,
Friedrich (1879-1960),
[578], [581]
Addition
of
velocities,
law
of
(Addi-
tionstheorem), 134, 155,
160-162,
372;
rel-
ativistic,
160. See
also
Superposition,
of
velocities
Ampere,
Andre-Marie (1775-1836),
357,
[565]
Analogy arguments:
AE's,
114, 128n;
Nernst's, 545n
Archimedes'
spiral,
196,
244n
Area law
(Flächensatz), 28,
33-35,
57,
65-67
Aschkinass,
Emil (1873-1909), 413n
Astronomy,
496.
See
also
Kepler's
laws; Light,
deflection;
Planets
Atomic
theory,
125,
413.
See
also
Heat,
atom-
ic;
Kinetic
theory; Lattice;
Molecular
dimensions
Atomic vibrations. See
Vibrations, atomic
Atomism, 284, 414n
Atoms, 517n;
compressibility on
the basis
of,
412, 526-527; distance
between, 468;
and
electrons,
514n;
evidence
of, 508n;
heat
os-
cillations
of,
527; mass
of,
468, 470;
mean
kinetic
energy of,
471-472,
521;
size
of,
422.
See
also
Energy,
atomic; Forces,
inter-
atomic;
Gravitational red
shift;
Kinetic theo-
ry;
Lattice; Molecules;
Oscillations
Avogadro's law, 181, 212,
245n
Avogadro's
number, 181, 189, 243n,
284,
311n
Baltischwiler,
Frl.
Dr.,
[576]
Bancelin,
Jacques, 416,
418n
Basel,
254,
257n
Basel,
University of,
547n