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August 21, 2005
New Einstein Manuscript Found
A student recently discovered a sixteen-page handwritten manuscript of a paper by Albert Einstein in Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics' archives. The manuscript, "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas" dated December 1924, was discovered by Rowdy Boeyink, while doing research for his master thesis. Einstein published the paper in January of 1925 in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Satyendra Nath Bose and Einstein further developed the basic thesis of the manuscript and paper into the idea that became known as the theoretical Bose-Einstein condensation.
While the manuscript has little scientific value, it is of some importance in the history of the development of an important element of modern physics.
As the Washington Post notes,
In 1995, University of Colorado at Boulder scientists Eric Cornell and Carl Wiemann created such a condensation using a gas of the element rubidium and were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, together with Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Boeyink discovered other items, including a letter from Danish physicist Niels Bohr.
High-resolution photographs of the Einstein manuscript are available on the Lorentz Institute's website. You can read the whole story in the Washington Post or USA Today. Afarensis and Abbas Raza, at 3quarksdaily, both of whom led me to this item, have posted on the manuscript.
Posted by DuaneSmith at August 21, 2005 09:24 AM | Read more on Science - General |
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