Letter, 1937 June 1 : Princeton, N.J., to Richard Philip Baker, Iowa City, Iowa.

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Letter, 1937 June 1 : Princeton, N.J., to Richard Philip Baker, Iowa City, Iowa.

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Einstein thanks Baker for sending him stereoscopic illustrations of models demonstrating opalescence, and mentions that Professor Smoluchowski died young, not long after the publication of his work on opalescence.

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Baker, Richard Philip, 1866-1937

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Smoluchowski, Marian, 1872-1917

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Physicist (theory of Brownian motion, stochastic phenomena, theory of opalescence, hydrodynamics). Professor in Lvov, 1899-1913, and in Cracow, 1913-1917. From the description of Personal archives, 1890-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80180876 ...

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...