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REPLY
TO
LAUE
Published
in
Annalen der
Physik
47
(1915):
879-885. Received
24
June
1915, published
3
September
1915.
[1]Laue
1915a.
Von
Laue had
sent
an
earlier version of
this paper to
Einstein
for
comments.
Einstein's
criticism,
which
was
formulated
in
a
letter that
is
no
longer
available,
was
addressed
by
von
Laue in
a
letter
of
late
May (see
Max
von
Laue
to
Einstein, 27 May
1915).
They
also
had
a
conversation
on
the
matter
in
Göttingen (see
Max
von
Laue
to
Wilhelm
Wien,
15 July
1915,
GyMDM,
Wien Nachlaß,
Mappe Laue).
In
his
letter,
von
Laue
promised
to
send Einstein
a
copy
of
his revised
manuscript
at
the
same
time that
he
submitted it
to
the Annalen der
Physik,
so
that
Einstein,
should
he
still have
objections,
could write
a
response.
Laue received
the
proofs
of
Einstein's
response
in
mid-July
1915, simultaneously
with the
proofs
of Laue
1915a. He did
not
look
at
Einstein's
paper,
however,
before
sending
off his
own
proofs,
in
order
to
avoid
being
influenced
to
make
changes
in
his
own
paper
(see
Max
von
Laue
to
Wil-
helm
Wien,
15 July 1915).
Both
papers,
Laue 1915a and Einstein
1915e,
were
published
in
the
same
issue of the Annalen. One
paper
was
received within
a
week of the other.
In
Laue 1915b which
was
received
14
October and
was a
response to
Einstein's
paper,
von
Laue discarded the
objection
formulated
on
p.
880,
but
accepted
and
generalized
Einstein's
calculations of
§1
and
§2.
[2]See
Einstein and
Hopf
1910a. Note that the title of
von
Laue's
paper
is
almost identical
to
that of the
paper
by
Einstein and
Hopf.
[3]"n/T"
should
be
"n/T."
[4]"a2v" should be
"a2v."