This volume of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein"
presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in
October 1909. The initial date marks Einstein's departure from the
Swiss Patent Office at Bern, which had been his professional home
for seven years, and the beginning of his first academic
appointment, at the University of Zurich. The volume concludes with
the masterful report that Einstein, by then a full professor at the
German-language university in Prague, gave to the original Solvay
Congress, the first international meeting devoted to the problems
of radiation and the quantum theory. Most of Einstein's efforts
during these years went into his struggle with these ever more
perplexing problems of quanta, on which he made discouragingly
little progress.
Einstein's new academic career naturally required him to teach,
and almost half of this volume consists of the previously
unpublished notes he wrote in preparation for his lectures on
mechanics, on electricity and magnetism, and on kinetic theory and
statistical mechanics. The last of these is particularly
interesting in reflecting some of his research interests.
Several papers here are concerned with aspects of the special
theory of relativity, but it is Einstein's article of June 1911
that is a harbinger of things to come: it contains his calculation
of the bending of light in a gravitational field on the basis of
his equivalence principle.
Martin J. Klein is Bass Professor of the History of Science and
Professor of Physics at Yale University and Senior Editor of The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. A. J. Kox teaches history of
science at the University of Amsterdam, Jurgen Renn is Assistant
Professor of Philosophy and Physics at Boston University, and
Robert Schulmann is Assistant Professor of History at Boston
University."
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