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DOCS.
265,
266 APRIL
1911
265. To
Hans Tanner
Prague. Monday
[24
April 1911]
Dear
Mr.
Tanner:
I
am
very glad
that
you got
the
job.[1]
You will
get
there
exactly
what
you
are
still
lacking,
namely involvement in
experimental
work. You must not
worry
about
your
doctoral
dissertation.[2]
First
I wished,
in
your
own
interest,
that
you
would extend
your
work to
viscosity.
For the
same
reason,
I
now
wish
that for the
purposes
of
the
dissertation
you
would
content
yourself,
in
the
main,
with
what
you
have
found
so
far.
But then
you
must do
a
clean
and careful
job
with
the
relatively
little
you
have,
and if
possible, expand upon
the
material. Work
it
up as
fast
as possible
&
give
the work
immediately to
Hagenbach,[3]
so
that
he
can
see
whether
it will suffice.
If
it
will
not,
then
we
will add
something
about
viscosity,
which, to
be
sure,
will
not
be
definitive,
but
will
still be
more
consistent than
Reinganum's
work,[4]
because,
for
example, we
count
only
collisions
of
nuclei
as
collisions.
In
any
case,
you
can
include
polymerization.
If
polymerization is
optically
perceptible
in the
absorption spectrum,
this
could
lead
to
an
interesting
test
of the
theory.
You should
talk
with
Hagenbach
about that-of
course,
this has
nothing to
do with
your
dissertation, since this would
surely
take
a
long
time.-
I
quite
like it
here,
even
though Prague
is
no
Zurich.
I
have
an
institute
with
a fairly
good library
and
few official
duties.[5]
I
already
work in the
institute
all
day long,
at
the
moment
on
molecular
motion
in solid
bodies.[6]
A
new investigation
dealing
with
the
radiation
theory is
also
being
planned. Otherwise,
things are
different
here,
of
course,
from
Zurich. The
air
is
full
of
soot,
the water
life-threatening,
the
people
superficial,
shallow,
and
rough
even though, as
it
seems, generally good-natured.
I wish
you
much
luck in
your
new
job,
and
send
you my
best
regards.
If there
is
anything you
feel
especially
upset
about
or
if
you
have
anything
else to
report,
then
write to
your
A.
Einstein.
266. To
Marcel Grossmann
[Prague,
27
April 1911]
Dear
Marcel,
I cannot
say no
to
you.
So I'll
come
to
the lectures.-
[1]After
a
difficult
journey
we
arrived
here
in
good
condition
&
have
found
a
beautiful
apartment. (Trebizkeho
uliza
1215)[2]
I have
a
magnificent institute[3]
here
in which
I
work
very comfortably.
Otherwise
it
is
less
homey
(Czech language, bedbugs,
awful water,
etc.). By
the
way,
the
Czechs
are
much
more
harmless than
one usually
thinks.
I
hardly
know
any
of the
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