CALENDAR
1917
1007
January
23
1-page
TTrL from Emil
Warburg
to the Nobel committee
nominating
Einstein for Nobel
Prize,
citing
work in
quan-
tum
theory, relativity theory,
and
gravitation.
Provenance:
SSRAS,
Center
for
History
of
Science, 1917,
Fysik, p.
136.
[83 043].
January
28
Envelope
to
Wladyslaw
Natanson
with
"Drucksache."
printed on
it,
addressed
"Herrn Prof. Dr. L. Natanson Uni-
versität Krakau"
with
return
address "A. Einstein
Wittels-
bacherstr.
13 Berlin.,"
and
postmarked
"Be[rlin-
]Wilmersdorf
1
28.1.17.
6-7N[achmittags]."
Obscured.
Contained Einstein’s
reprints
mentioned in Doc. 291. Prove-
nance:
PlCJ,
9005 III,
p.
125.
[18 384].
February
First serious
symptoms
of
chronic
gastric
condition.
February
8
Submits
"Cosmological
Considerations in the General
Theory
of
Relativity" (Vol. 6,
Doc.
43)
to the
physical-
mathematical class
of
the
PAW.
February
16
1-page
TDS from the Wiener Bank-Verein. The
Prague
branch of the
bank
notifies Einstein
of
interest accrued to
his
account,
which totals 8175.79
crowns.
Provenance:
IsJHU.
[45 250].
February
17
"Reply
to the Plaintiff’s Written Statement
of
27
December
1916"
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
44).
February
23 Commemorates the
death
of
Alexander
von
Schütz. Prove-
nance:
Deutsche
Physikalische
Gesellschaft.
Verhandlungen
19 (30
March
1917),
nos.
5-6,
p.
41.
March
1
2-page
ALS
to
Paul and
Maja
Winteler-Einstein.
"Euer
Brief
hat mich sehr
gefreut
..."
Reference
only
in
notes
by
P. Speziali
for
Einstein/Besso
1972.
[81 468].
March 2
Walther Rathenau dedicates
a copy
of
Rathenau 1917a:
"Albert Einstein in
Verehrung zugeeignet
2. 3. 17
Rathenau."
Provenance: IsJHU.
[74 430].
March
3
1-page
ADS. Invitation
by
Hedi Born in the form
of
a poem.
Provenance: IsJHU.
[65 844].
March
14
Participates
for the first time
in
a
meeting
of the
board of
trustees
of
the
PTR.
March 29 Einstein’s cat’s
back
airfoil
is
tested in the wind tunnel
of
Versuchsanstalt für
Flugtechnik, Göttingen.
April
3
1-page
DS Julius
Springer Publishing
House form
accom-
panying
the
manuscript
of
Schlick
1918. Einstein acknowl–
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