CALENDAR
1918
1019
March
14
3-page
AD.
Poem
by
Hedi Born
on
the occasion
of
Ein-
stein’s 39th
birthday.
Provenance: IsJHU.
[65 845].
March
15
2-page
ALS from Hermann Fricke. Gives details
of
his
since
completed manuscript on gravitation
theory,
and
presses
for
a reply.
Provenance:
GyBP,
I.
Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
2,
Mappe
Fricke.
[78 033].
March
17
1-page
ALS
from
H.
Ed.
Brandt,
administrator
of
the Otto
Vahlbruch Foundation in
Hamburg, informing
Einstein that
the
philosophical faculty
of
the
University
of
Göttingen
will
award
him
the biannual Vahlbruch Prize in the amount
of
11,000
marks. This
price
is
given
to
German-speaking
authors
of
significant papers
in the natural sciences. Prove-
nance:
IsJHU.
[30 110].
March
21
"Can Refractive Indexes
of
Bodies Be
Experimentally
Established
for
X-Rays?"
(Vol.
7,
Doc.
6).
March 23 1-page ALS from H.
Ed.
Brandt,
resends
on
behalf
of the
Otto Vahlbruch Foundation his March
17 letter,
which had
been
returned,
requesting
Einstein’s exact
title,
and
urging
him
to
provide
the information before the
public announce-
ment
of
the Vahlbruch Prize
on
March 28. Provenance:
IsJHU.
[30 111].
2-page
ALS from Heinrich
Könemann
in Münster
request-
ing support
for the
verification
of
his
desgn
for
a perpetuum
mobile. Provenance:
GyBP,
I.
Abt.,
Rep.
34,
Nr.
7, Mappe
H.
Könemann.
[77 789].
March 28
3-page
ALS
from Heinrich
Könemann
responding
to Ein-
stein’s
objection
to the
underlying
idea
of
a perpetuum
mobile. Provenance: IsJHU.
[44 172].
March
31
1-page
ALS
from
Jean
Loeffler,
Secretary
of
the Peter
Wilhelm
Müller
Foundation, informing
Einstein
of
the
award
of
an honorary prize
for
his achievements in the
mathematical
sciences,
which he has shared with
Hilbert.
Provenance: IsJHU.
[30 115].
April
4 Attends
a meeting
of
the PAW
for
the first time since
December
1917.
With other
members
of
a
plenary
committee refers
funding request
from
P. Kögel
for
photographic reproductions
of
palimpsests
to the
appropria-
tions committee
of
the
PAW.
Provenance: Minutes
of
the
plenary
session
of
this
date, GyBAW,
II-V, Vol.
94,
pp.
22-
24.
[83
720].
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