INDEX 1091
Lang, E.,
letter
to
Amtsgericht Berlin,
975n
Lange,
Konrad
(1855-1931),
888
Lange, Ludwig
(1863-1936),
447,
448n
Langevin,
Paul
(1872-1946),
affair with
Curie,
Marie, 7
Lasker,
Emanuel
(1868-1941),
906
Laub,
Jakob
(1882-1962),
181n, 236n, 395n,
803, 804n,
909n
Laue,
Max
von
(1879-1960):
75, 471, 478, 601, 620, 671, 853n,
883
AE,
Fourier coefficients
of
radiation,
discus-
sion with
on,
131-133
Born, Max, exchange
of
positions with,
472,
576, 621, 622n, 637, 655n,
953
character
of,
637
crystals, on investigation
of
with
X-rays,
576
on
Einstein-De
Haas
experiment, 131
on
electron
gas,
776
electron
mass,
on velocity-dependence
of,
908
Entwurf
theory, reception
of
by,
154
Gehrcke, Ernst,
general relativity,
criticizes
attack
of
on,
345n
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
of
Physics, on
financial
help
from,
576,
621
letter
to Planck, Max,
424
letter to
Schlick, Moritz,
472n
letter to
Sommerfeld, Arnold,
425n
military, serves
in,
621
nervous
condition
of,
637
paper
for
philosophers
of,
868
Planck, Max,
aspires
to
be
successor
of,
637
Planck
celebration,
edits lectures
to, 775,
784n,
presents
lecture
at, 628,
654-655,
672
probability
calculus in
theory
of
radiation,
paper
of
on,
133n
Prussian
Academy, aspires
to
be
member
of,
621
Solvay Congress,
second,
lecture
of
at,
157n
University
of
Vienna,
nominated for
chair of
Physics
at,
265n
wave theory,
classical,
on
failure
of,
424
Wien, Wilhelm,
collaboration
of
with,
472n
zero-point energy, against,
131
Laue
scalar,
801
Laue-Degen,
Magdalene (1891-1961),
638n,
654
Laue’s
theorem, 101, 517, 787n
Lavanchy,
Ch.,
913
Lazarev,
Pëtr
(1878-1942), invites AE,
18
Le
Verrier,
Urbain (1811-1877),
202,
221
League
of
Nations, 187n,
918-919
Lecher,
Ernst
(1856-1925), 295, 462,
578
Lecher’s
experiment,
295, 300
Leeuwen,
Cornelia
van.
See Nordström-
Leeuwen,
Cornelia
van
Leeuwen,
Hendrika
van,
468
Lehmann,
Max (1845-1929):
737,
745
746;
Delbruck-Dernburg
petition, signs,
759n;
political
views
of,
758
Leibniz,
Gottfried
Wilhelm,
540
Length
contraction and time
dilation, paradox of,
900-901,
907-908
Length,
invariant,
951-952
Lense-Thirring
effect, 483, 501
Lentze,
August,
letter to Minister
of
Education,
40n
Lenz,
Emma
and
Max,
150n
Lenz,
Wilhelm (1888-1957),
132, 147, 326,
671
Levi,
Emma
(1842-1927), 329
Levi-Civita,
Tullio (1873-1941):
332n, 507,
523n, 670n, 704, 712,
765,
959; AE, energy-
momentum
pseudotensor,
discussion with
on,
498-500, 509-510,
Entwurf
theory,
dis-
cussion
with
on,
96-97, 98-100,
102,
104-105,
107-109, 111-112, 114-115, 119,
121-123,
124;
on cosmological
term, 498;
energy-momentum
pseudotensor, paper
of
on, 442;
general relativity, papers
of
on,
497
Levin, Max, 130,
134
Lewald,
Theodor
(1860-1947), 825n
Lewinowitsch,
Raphael,
402n
Lex
Heinze,
188n
Lick
Observatory,
216n
Lie
variation, 278n, 689n, 699n, 834n, 917n,
970
Lieserl (1902-?),
daughter
of
AE and Einstein-
Maric, Mileva,
4n
Light
deflection. See Gravitational
light
deflec-
tion
Light pressure,
332;
negative,
548, 861, 862,
903,
961
Light quanta,
existence
of,
333
Light,
stellar,
from
antipodal point,
412
Lindemann,
Frederick
(1886-1957),
469
Line element:
as
abstraction, 391;
definition
of,
392;
path-dependent,
710,
720-721,
724,
726-727,
742,
803-804,
859, 878, 893, 934,
956, 967;
of
Schwarzschild, Karl, 313, 779;
of
Sitter,
Willem
de,
779