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Pfempfert, Frank, 1t5
phenomenology, 130, 141
Philosophy of Science Association, 142
photoelectric effect, 24, 48, 57
Pick, Georg, 195, 206, 208, 229; deportation and death of, 209, 253; Einstein’s closeness to, 55–56, 76, 93, 109, 110; relativity defended by, 117; as search committee member, 23, 24, 38–39, 113
Pick, Otto, 160
Pitter, Přemysl, 203–4
Pius IX, Pope, 130
Planck, Max, 49, 69, 78, 187, 210; Einstein praised by, 24, 25–26; Mach vs., 117, 118; thermal radiation research by, 48
Plicka, Karel, 256
Poincaré, Henri, 49, 61, 114
Poisson equation, 63, 67, 74, 75
Poland, 28, 231, 236
Polanyi, Michael, 112
Pollak, Leo Wenzel, 65, 223, 233
Popper, Karl, 112
Prag (Kraus), 158
Prager Tagblatt, 106, 109, 110, 126, 133, 150–51, 186–87, 215
Prague (Plicka), 256
Prague Linguistic Circle, 139, 219
Prague Spring, 2, 247, 248, 249
Prague Urania, 109, 111, 112, 140, 215
Přemyslid dynasty, 17, 26, 27
Princeton University, 66, 261
The Principle of Relativity (Nachtikal), 225–26
Principles of International Law (Bentham), 131
Principles of Physical Optics (Mach), 118
The Principles of the Theory of Heat (Mach), 116
Protestant Reformation, 2, 30
Prussia, 28
Puchta, Anton, 55
Purkyně, Jan Evangelista, 225
quantum theory, 7, 23, 51, 60, 61, 173, 187, 243; attacks on, 39; Einstein’s turn away from, 52, 75; philosophical implications of, 114, 142; Solvay Conference on, 48–50
Quine, Willard V. O., 125
Rabinovitz, Isidor, 208
Rádl, Emanuel, 90, 213, 226
Rauchberg, Heinrich, 107
Raudnitz, Robert, 186
Reichenbach, Hans, 124, 126–27, 135, 142
Reiser, Anton (pseud. of Rudolf Kayser), 85, 159–60
Reitler-Eidlitz, Clara, 129
relativity: attacks on, 39, 73, 111, 113, 118, 128–29, 132–43, 176, 226, 228–29; Einstein’s lectures on, 7, 91–92, 95, 110, 229; Entwurf theory of, 51, 72, 75, 76, 117; international recognition of, 7–8, 12, 104; Mach’s view of, 117–20; nationalist invocations of, 109–10, 216–17; Nazi denunciations of, 39; philosophical implications of, 114, 115, 117, 119–24, 242–43, 246–49; Planck’s view of, 24; popular works on, 10, 111, 187–88, 202, 214, 225–26, 228, 229, 258–59; Soviet views of, 238, 242–44, 246–49; Záviška’s promotion of, 227–30. See also Entwurf theory of relativity; general relativity; special relativity; static theory
Relativity (Einstein), 214–15
Relativity (Frank), 123
Rendiconti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 69
Renner, Karl, 290n28
Rëubeni, Prince of the Jews (Brod), 174
Rey, Abel, 114
Rhineland, 28
Roma, 236
Romania, 231
Roscoe, Henry, 220
Rosen, Edward, 307n33
Rothmund, Viktor, 23–24, 38
Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, 217
Ruark, Arthur, 208
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 152, 154, 168
Ruppin, Arthur, 199
Russian Revolution, 2, 231
Růžek (student), 238, 239, 240
Sadan, Dov, 177
Šalda, František Xaver, 163–64
Savić, Helene, 100
Saxony, 28
Schilpp, Paul Arthur, 121
Schlesinger, Georg, 200
Schleswig, 28
Schlick, Moritz, 112, 124, 126, 127, 141
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 101, 151
Schröter, Carl, 88
Schumann, Wolfgang, 161
Schussnigg, Kurt, 230
Schwarz, 209
Schweitzer, Albert, 139
The Science of Mechanics (Mach), 116, 118
Second World War, 2, 35, 216
Seelig, Carl, 256, 289n24
Selbstwehr (periodical), 192
Serbia, 96, 99, 100
Seton-Watson, R. W., 29
Seydler, August, 218
Shapley, Harlow, 142
Skokan, Jindřich, 228
Slánský, Rudolf, 245
The Sleepwalkers (Koestler), 157
Slovakia, 234, 236, 254
Smetana, Augustin, 90
Smetana, Bedřich, 161
Smoluchowski, Marian von, 69
Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art, and Literature, 217–18
Soldner, Johann Georg von, 285n41
Solovine, Maurice, 178, 233
Solvay, Ernst, 47–48, 49, 50
Solvay Conference, 47–50, 78, 96
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 26, 45, 60, 72, 126
Somnium (Kepler), 145–46
Soviet Union: annexations by, 236; Czechoslovakia dominated by, 237–38, 245; decline of, 254; Prague invaded by (1968), 2, 247, 253; science and ideology in, 241, 242–44, 247–48; Western overtures to, 125
special relativity, 7, 47, 50–51, 65, 73, 124, 225, 227, 247, 264; Abraham’s theory vs., 69, 71–72, 76; basic features of, 57–63; Einstein’s lectures on, 91–92, 95, 110, 239; general relativity distinguished from, 57; Mach linked to, 117; precursors of, 48; skepticism toward, 135, 138
Stalin, Joseph, 243, 245
Stark, Johannes, 39, 57, 138
Stark effect, 39
Starkenstein, Emil, 188
static theory, 51, 61–62, 63–65, 67–68, 71, 73–75, 79, 105, 117
Steiner, Rudolf, 8–9, 94
Steinherz, Samuel, 222
Stern, Alfred, 86, 105–6
Stern, Clara, 86, 105–6
Stern, Otto, 55, 206
Streitbares Leben (Brod), 169
Strouhal, Čeněk, 218
Struik, Dirk, 248, 326n87
Stumpf, Carl, 20, 21, 45, 193–94
Stürgkh, Karl, Graf von, 26, 38–39, 41–42, 43, 186–87, 188
Der Sturm (periodical), 165
Sucharda, Stanislav, 82
Sudeten German Party, 211, 232, 236
Suslov, Mikhail, 246
Swabia, 28
Switzerland, 28, 33; Bohemia likened to, 89–91
Taussig, Eduard, 150
Taussig, Elsa, 150
Tengnagel, Frans Gansneb, 153, 154, 156
Teweles, Heinrich, 215
Theresienstadt, 209
thermodynamics, 23, 48
Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), 2, 30
Three Lectures on Jewry (Buber), 238
Thun, J. M., 5–6
Thuringia, 28
Tietze, Heinrich, 105
The Time Machine (Wells), 265
Tito, Josip Broz, 245
Der Tod des Löwen (Hauschner), 158
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), 221
The Trial (Kafka), 6, 131, 148
Trieste, 2
Ein tschechisches Dienstmädchen (Brod), 101–3, 151, 161
Tschermak-Seysseneg, Armin, 222
Tutsch, Heinrich, 203
Tycho Brahe (Dreyer), 157, 162
Tycho Brahe’s Path to God (Brod), 146–49, 151–56, 173, 174, 177; critical and commercial response to, 158–61, 163, 164; as roman à clef, 157, 165–66, 167–71; sources of, 157–58, 161–62
Ukrainians, 236
Umschau (periodical), 135
Under the Banner of Marxism (periodical), 242
Union of Czech Mathematicians, 218
United Kingdom, 171, 232
University of Berlin, 3, 7, 12
University of California, Los Angeles, 141–42
University of Geneva, 47
University of Kraków, 33
University of Lviv, 33
University of Paris, 27
University of Prague, 29–31, 33–
34
University of Utrecht, 77
University of Vienna, 32
University of Zurich, 22, 42, 44, 78, 125
Urbach, Benno, 135
urbanization, 35
Utitz, Emil, 144
Utraquists, 30–31, 33, 34, 36, 217
Vaihinger, Hans, 135, 137
Vienna, 17, 112; migration to, 35
Vienna Circle, 92, 125, 127, 128, 141, 223
Vienna Urania, 224
Vltava River (Moldau), 17, 27, 80, 87
Wähner, Franz, 109
Walden, Herwath, 165
Waltenhofen, Adalbert von, 42
Washington Declaration, 213
Weierstrass, Karl, 55
Die weißen Blätter, 152
Weizmann, Chaim, 195, 201, 202
Wells, H. G., 265
Der Weltfreund (Werfel), 167
Weltsch, Felix, 160, 195
Weltsch, Robert, 7, 95, 209, 234, 263
Wenceslaus IV, King of Bohemia, 28–29
Wenig, Adolf, 161–62
Werfel, Alma, 170
Werfel, Franz, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 178
Wertheimer, Max, 136
Westphalia, 28
Wheeler, John Archibald, 250
Wien, Wilhelm, 68
Wilson, Woodrow, 109
Winder, Ludwig, 173
Winternitz, Josef, 124
Winternitz, Moriz, 95, 109, 124
Wolff, Kurt, 152, 159, 166
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 2
Wolmar, Wolfgang Wolfram von, 29
Wolters, Gereon, 297n36
Wyclif, John, 30
Yiddish, 189
Žáček, Augustin, 225
Zahn, Ernst, 47
Zahra, Tara, 21
Zakel, Eva, 331–32n32
Zakel, Ludek, 331–32n32
Zangger, Heinrich, 50, 54, 67, 77, 86, 87, 98, 183
Záviška, František, 218, 225, 226–30, 249
Zionism, 12, 13, 172, 182, 192–200, 238; Brod’s embrace of, 150, 151; Einstein and, 94, 185, 189, 195, 198–202, 211
Živa (periodical), 225
Zurich, 45, 84, 88, 89, 91
Zvon (periodical), 162, 164
Zweig, Stefan, 173