CALENDAR
1917
1005
November
24 Commemorates the death
of
Robert Lindemann. Prove-
nance:
Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft. Verhandlungen
18
(15
December
1916),
nos.
22-23,
p.
397.
December Finishes his
exposition
On the
Special
and
the
General
The-
ory
of
Relativity
(A
Popular
Account)
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
42).
December
20-21
3-page
TDS.
Signs
contract with Friedrich
Vieweg
for
the
publication
of
a
book
entitled "Die
Grundgedanken
der
speziellen
und
allgemeinen
Relativitätstheorie in
gemein-
verständlicher
Darstellung"
with
February 1,
1917
as
the
date
of
completion
of
the
manuscript.
Provenance:
IsJHU.
[67 888].
December 22
3-page proposal
to the
Emperor by
Karl
Helfferich,
Prussian
Minister of
the
Interior,
to
appoint
Einstein to the board
of
trustees
of
the PTR. Helfferich refers to Einstein’s theoreti-
cal achievements and to his
experimental
work
on
molecu-
lar
Ampère
currents
as
proof
of
his
ability
to
deal with
technical
problems.
Provenance:
GyBSa,
Geheimes Zivil-
kabinett, 2.2.1,
Nr.
21325,
pp.
72-73.
[82 218].
See
pro-
posal
for decree:
Gy-Ar(P),
Reichsamt/Reichsministerium
des
Innern,
Nr.
13148,
pp.
231-232.
[81
967].
December
30
1-page
TTrL.
Emperor’s
decree
appoints
Einstein to the
board of
trustees
of
the PTR. Provenance:
GyBSa,
Geheimes
Zivilkabinett, 2.2.1,
Nr.
21325,
p.
74.
[82 219].
1917
2-page
ALS
on a calling
card,
from Victor Adler in Berlin.
Requests a telephone
conversation
concerning
his
son
Friedrich Adler. The card is
imprinted:
"Hr. Victor Adler."
and
Adler
has added "Berlin Hotel
Excelsior
Z[immer]
459." Provenance: IsJHU.
[34 413].
An advertisement
soliciting
mathematicians
or physicists
for research in
aerodynamics appears:
"Für
wissenschaftli-
che
Bearbeitung flugtechnischer Fragen
wird ein Mathema-
tiker oder
Physiker
möglichst
bald
gesucht.
Bewerbung
mit
Lebenslauf,
Zeugnisabschriften,
Gehaltsansprüchen
und
Angabe
des Eintritts
gebeten an
die Deutsche Versuchs-
anstalt
f. Luftfahrt,
e.
V., Adlershof." Provenance:
Phy-
sikalische
Zeitschrift
18
(1917),
p.
152.
1-page
ADS. A
curriculum
vitae,
which lists Einstein’s
"most
important
scientific
ideas"
as
"1905,
special
relativ-
ity,
inertia
of
energy,
law
of Brownian
motion,
quantum
law
of
emission and
absorption
of
light;
1907,
fundamental idea