Saturday, August 20, 2005

Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered

An AP newswire article by Toby Sterling, via ABC News, reports that:

The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday.

The German-language manuscript is titled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas," and is dated December 1924. Considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs, it was published in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in January, 1925.

High-resolution photographs of the 16-page manuscript and an account of its discovery were posted on the institute's Web site.

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