DOCUMENT 477 OCTOBER 1913 559 ALS. [72 296]. [1]The year is provided by the reference to the Berlin appointment. [2]Following his Vienna lecture two and-a-half weeks earlier, Einstein visited Löwenthal in Berlin. He had expressed his wish to do so months earlier (see Docs. 434, 465, and 466). [3]Einstein's last semester at the ETH before moving to Berlin. [4]Auguste Hochberger may have been one (see Doc. 497). [5]Cosman Dreyfus his youngest daughter Marie. [6]Bertha Dreyfus (1871-1942), a widowed older daughter of Cosman. [7]Peter Hubert Wessel (1866-?) married Marie Dreyfus in mid-1911 (see printed Stamm- tafel, in Specker 1979, catalogue no. 29). [8]Clementine Marx nee Einstein (1842-1930), a niece of Einstein's paternal grandfather, Abraham Einstein, and mother of August Marx. [9]An idiosyncratic variant of "Gutserl," Swabian for "Süßigkeiten." [10]Mileva Einstein-Maric did not accompany Einstein on the German leg of his trip, but probably returned to Zurich from Vienna directly. [11]LÖwenthal's quarrel with Pauline Einstein is alluded to in Doc. 465. [12]Mileva Einstein-Maric. [13]Löwenthal's daughters by her first marriage. [14]A hairbrush given to Einstein on his Berlin visit (see Doc. 486). [15]Fritz Haber, who had played a role in Einstein's call to Berlin (see Docs. 428 and 466). 477. To George Hale Zürich. 14. X. 13. Hoch geehrter Herr Kollege! Eine einfache theoretische Überlegung macht die Annahme plausibel, dass Lichtstrahlen in einem Gravitationsfelde eine Deviation erfahren. Grav. Feld ^ Lichtstrahl Am Sonnenrande müsste diese Ablenkung 0,84" betragen und wie abneh- men (R = Entfernung vom Sonnen-Mittelpunkt).[1] R- Stern [ ' } Sonne Es wäre deshalb von grösstem Interesse, bis zu wie grosser Sonnennähe helle Fixsterne bei Anwendung der stärksten Vergrösserungen bei Tage (ohne Sonnenfinsternis) gesehen werden können.[2]