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Impressions of Albert Einstein

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Fifty years ago a junior employé of the Patent Office in Bern was in the habit, whenever the chief, Haller by name, made his rounds, of causing a batch of papers to vanish into a drawer, and quickly taking out others on which were written his reports on the patent specifications. I think it unlikely that Haller did not notice this. Why should he object, since he was satisfied with the employé’s work? After vehement protests on the part of applicants against the reports of the office based on his work had been successfully rebutted, Haller would sit, of an evening, over a Swiss cigar and a mug of wine and contentedly remark to no one in particular “We’ll show them who is God Almighty” (“where God Almighty sits”).

Einsteins Tod hat mich auch persönlich erreicht. Ein mir so wohlgesinnter, väterlicher Freund ist nicht mehr. Nie werde ich die Rede vergessen, die er 1945 in Princeton über mich und für mich gehalten, nachdem ich den Nobel-Preis bekommen hatte. Es war wie ein König, der abdankt und mich als eine Art “Wahl-Sohn” zum Nachfolger einsetzt. Leider existieren keine Aufzeichnungen über diese Rede Einsteins (sie war improvisiert und ein Manuskript existiert auch nicht).

Letter from Pauli to Max Born, April 24, 1955

* Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22. April 1955.

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Pauli, W. (1994). Impressions of Albert Einstein. In: Enz, C.P., von Meyenn, K. (eds) Writings on Physics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02994-7_14

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