参考文献

参考文献

关于爱因斯坦的早期论文,我主要依靠从The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein(简称CPAE)卷1~4,6,7和它们的编者John Stachel,Martin Klein,Michel Janssen,Anne Kox,Robert Schulmann以及他们编辑部得来的科学信息,还有John Stachel(在Trevor Lipscombe,Alice Calaprice和Sam Elworthy的帮助下)为1905年的论文译编的Einstein's Miracular Years。[1]有用的书还有:John Stachel的Einstein from B to Z,Sachi Sri Kantha的An Einstein Dictionary,此外至少还有一本难以找到的Cornelius Lanczos编写的书——The Einstein Decade(1905~1915)。最后,Milan Popović编的In Albert's ShadowThe Life and Letters of Mileva MarićEinsteins First Wife一书对从米列娃的角度来看爱因斯坦的家庭生活很有用。

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为了对空穴论证(论文40)有较全面的了解,请特别参考John Stachel的论文“Einstein's Search for General Covariance,1912~1915,”载Stachel and Howard,eds.,Einstein and the History of General Relativity(Birkhäuser,1989)。亦见John Norton and John Earman的著作。

爱因斯坦在1901~1921年的文章的英译文可在CPAE的英译本中找到,也是由Princeton University Press出版,在各大学图书馆都可找到。当我能找到1921年以后的文章的英译文时,我加上了译文的出处。

关于传记材料,我参考了CPAE和几部爱因斯坦的传记,特别是Albrecht Fölsing的Albert Einstein,Dennis Overbye的Einstein in Love,和Abraham Pais的Subtle Is the Lord。我也吸取了25年来编辑爱因斯坦论文的经验。绝大部分著作,都已列入Nell Boni的Readex Checklist中,这是很有用的,此外还有Pais和Fölsing的传记中的参考文献目录。适合于一般读者的爱因斯坦的许多通俗著作,包括科学的与非科学的,可以在英文版的Ideas and Opinions中找到。最后,但并非最不重要的,我希望我的Expanded Quotable EinsteinThe New Quotable Einstein(2005)对那些希望很简明扼要地了解爱因斯坦对许多问题的见解的读者是有用的。

如果希望对物理学有一般的了解,我可以推荐Jeremy Bernstein的Quantum Profiles,Brian Greene的Elegant Universe,Sam Schweber的QED and the Men Who Made It,Julian Schwinger的Einstein's Legacy,Harriet Zuckerman的Scientific Elite和Gary Zukav的The Dancing Wu Li Masters o

历史的和科学的信息资料大有帮助的还有以下网站:nature.com,nobel.se,nuclearfiles.org,atomicmuseum.com,cerncourier.com,aps.org,aip.org,crimsonbird.com,almaz.co,userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de,lbl.gov,Ins.cornell.edu,seop.leeds.ac.uk和sciencetimeline.net。

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Bonner,Thomas N.IconoclastAbraham Flexner and a Lifein Learning.Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,2002.

Calaprice,Alice.The Expanded Quotable Einstein.Princeton,N.J.:Princeton University Press,2000.

Collected Papers of Albert EinsteinCPAE).Vols.1~9.Princeton,N.J.:Princeton University Press,1986~2004.

Einstein,Albert.Ideas and Opinions.New York:Crown,1954.

——.The World as ISee It.New York:Covici Friede,1934.

Fantova,Johanna.“Conversations with Einstein.”Manuscript in Department of Rare Books and Special Collections,Princeton University Library.

Fölsing,Albrecht.Albert Einstein.New York:Viking,1997.

Gardner,Howard.Creating MindsAn Anatomy of Creativity,87~131.New York:Basic Books,1993.

Greene,Brian.The Elegant Universe.Also a PBS series.New York:Vintage Books,2001;reprint,New York,Norton,2003.

Jerome,Fred.The Einstein FileJ.Edgar Hoover's Secret War against the World's Most Famous Scientist.New York:St.Martin's,2002.

Kantha,Sachi Sri.An Einstein Dictionary.Westport,Conn.:Greenwood Press,1996.

Lanczos,Cornelius.The Einstein Decade(1905~1915).London:Elek Science,1974.

Nathan,Otto,and Heinz Norden,eds.Einstein on Peace.New York:Simon and Schuster,1960.

Norton,John.“How Einstein Found His Field Equations,1912~1915.”In John Stachel and Don Howard,eds.,Einstein and the History of General Relativity,101~159.Einstein Studies,vol.1.Boston:Birkhäuser,1989.

Overbye,Dennis.Einstein in LoveA Scientific Romance.New York:Viking,2000.

Oxford Dictionary of Physics.4th ed.Edited by Alan Isaacs.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2000.

Pais,Abraham.Subtle Is the Lord...The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein.New York:Oxford University Press,1982.

Popović,Milan.In Albert's ShadowThe Life and Letters of Mileva MarićEinsteins First Wife.Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,2003.

Roboz-Einstein,Elizabeth.Hans Albert Einstein.Iowa City:University of Iowa,1991.

Rosenkranz,Ze'ev.The Einstein Scrapbook.Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,2002.

Schilpp,Paul,ed.Albert EinsteinPhilosopher-Scientist.Evanston,Ill.:Library of Living Philosophers,1949.

Schweber,Silvan S.QED and the Men Who Made It.Princeton,N.J.:Princeton University Press,1994.

Schwinger,Julian.Einstein's Legacy.New York:Scientific American Books,1986.

Stachel,John.Einstein from B to Z.Boston:Birkhäuser,2002.

Stachel,John,ed.,with the assistance of Trevor Lipscombe,Alice Calaprice,and Sam Elworthy.Einstein's Miraculous Year.Princeton,N.J.:Princeton University Press,1998.

Zuckerman,Harriet.Scientific Elite.New York:Free Press,1977.

Zukav,Gary.The Dancing Wu LiMastersAn Overview of the New Physics.New York:Perennial Classics,2001.

[1]参见《爱因斯坦奇迹年——改变物理学面貌的五篇论文》,约翰·施塔赫尔主编,范岱年、许良英译,上海科技教育出版社,2007年。——译者