Session B10: Invited Session: Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Review at APS
11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Monday, March 18, 2013
Room: 309
Sponsoring Unit:
FHP
Chair: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
Abstract ID: BAPS.2013.MAR.B10.3
Abstract: B10.00003 : ``Your Most Distinguished Contributor'': Einstein and the Physical Review
12:27 PM–1:03 PM
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Author:
Daniel Kennefick
(University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Einstein began to publish in the Physical Review after he began working with his first American research assistant, Nathan Rosen. They submitted three landmark papers together to the journal. These papers and their reception are discussed, along with the remarkable story of Einstein's umbrage at the referee report he received in response to his third submission. Although the referee was vindicated and Einstein eventually had to reverse his position, he never submitted a research paper to the Physical Review again. The identity of the referee, as learned from the Review's own records, will be revealed and Einstein's subsequent relationship with the journal will be discussed.
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