Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images: Albert and Carl Einstein, Leiden and Berlin, Relativity and Revolution

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作者：

Jeroen van Dongen

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[1] Utrecht University,Institute for History and Foundations of Science and Descartes Centre

[2] California Institute of Technology,Einstein Papers Project

来源：

Physics in Perspective | 2012年 / 14卷

关键词：

Albert Einstein; Carl Einstein; Anton Pannekoek; Hendrik Antoon Lorentz; Cornelis van Vollenhoven; Ernst Gehrcke; Paul Weyland; George Grosz; Johannes Theodoor de Visser; Pieter Jelles Troelstra; University of Leiden; Dada, Cubism; November Revolution; Brussels’ Soldiers Council; anti-Relativity; history of relativity;

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摘要：

Albert Einstein accepted a “special” visiting professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in February 1920. Although his appointment should have been a mere formality, it took until October of that year before Einstein could occupy his special chair. Why the delay? The explanation involves a case of mistaken identity with Carl Einstein, Dadaist art, and a particular Dutch fear of revolutions. But what revolutions was one afraid of? The story of Einstein’s Leiden chair throws new light on the reception of relativity and its creator in the Netherlands and in Germany.

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页码：126 / 177

页数：51