Speaking of Einstein, Max Born’s paper "Einsteins Theorie der Gravitation und der allgemeinen Relativität" in my Jan, 1916 copy of ‘Physikalische Zeitschrift’, a pvery early exposition of Einstein's newly minted general theory of relativity to the broader physics community. 🧵 #histsci
bookswain.bsky.social@bookswain.bsky.social · 2d agoAlbert Einstein wrote this article to mark the bicentenary of Isaac Newton's death, first published two months earlier in the same journal as Meisner’s article, Die Naturwissenschaften (my copy). He renounced his German citizenship in 1933, but needed no escape; he was already in the U.S. (5/n)
