Einstein, Laub and Planck in Annalen der Physik 26

Leipzig, 1908. (1) Planck, Max (1858-1947). Zur dynamik bewegter systeme. In Annalen der Physik 26 (6): 1-34 pp. (2) Einstein, Albert (1879-1965) and Jakob Laub (1882-1962). Über die elektromagnetischen grundgleichungen für bewegte Körper. In Annalen der Physik 26 (8): 532-40 pp. (Boni 22, Weil 22). (3) Einstein, A. and J. Laub. Über die im elektromagnetischen felde auf ruhende Körper ausgeubten ponderomotorischen Krafte. In Annalen der Physik 26 (8): 541-50 pp. (Boni 23, Weil 23). Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Figs. Text-illust. (230 x 141) mm. [Whole volume: viii, 1032 pp. + 8 plates (3 folding, 3 b/w silver photos)]. Spine a little worn, but (truncated) still Very Good.

Approximate English translations of titles: (1) "On the dynamics of moving systems". (2) "On the fundamental electromagnetic equations for moving bodies;" and (3) "On the ponderomotive forces exerted on bodies at rest in the electromagnetic field."

"Einstein wrote [no. 2, above], and "Elementary theory of Brownian motion," [in Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie 14 (1908): 235-239 pp.] in a three-week period with Jakob Laub, his first scientific collaborator, to address the problems of formulating relativistically invariant equations for electromagnetic fields in moving media, first raised by Hermann Minowski the year before." (Calaprice, An Einstein Encyclopedia. 2015.) A correction to this paper [no. 2] was published later in the year in vol. 27 (1908): 232, and a supplement for the following year in vol. 28 (1909): 445-447. Elaborating on the relativistic transformation of Maxwell's vacuum equations . . . Einstein and Laub also consider the displacement vector D and the magnetic induction B.

Weil's Einstein Bibliography, nos. 22, 23.
Boni's Einstein Checklist, nos. 22, 23.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947) was a German theoretical physicist who was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta" (nobelprize.org). Planck revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes as the originator of the quantum theory. Jakob Laub (1882-1962) was a physicist who is best known for his work in the early period of special relativity, having worked alongside Albert Einstein during that time. . (Inventory #: 50421)