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Let me cite a fragment of Mandelstam’s autobiography dated 1929. This autobiography is contained in his personal file [399, 46-1-51].
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See the biography of A. Gurvich [35].
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The author does not know the year of his death. Brandes published a number of articles on the theory of measurement in radio-engineering.
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A Russian translation of “Leitfaden” was published in Russian in 1908 [389], and an English translation of “Lehrbuch” was published in 1915]. There are other editions of the English version.
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N.D. Papalexy was born in the family of the Major of 51st Lithuanian regiment Dmitry Papalexy in 1890. He belonged to the nobility. In 1899, he finished Odessa gymnasium with a gold medal. Before he entered Strasbourg University, he was a student at Berlin University for one year ([399, stock 600, inventory 2, items 1–4]). In 1911, Papalexy took the status of Privatdocent.
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About the development of the speciality “theoretical physics” see [167].
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About Quincke see my new book “The history of research on chemical periodic processes”, Springer, 2018, pp. 6–7.
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According to J. Zenneck, F. Braun’s former student, with whom Braun collaborated, “radio was discovered by Hertz and Popov. Due to Marconi we practically have wireless telegraphy” [391, p. 409].
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This Foreword is reprinted in Mandelstam’s “Complete Works” [1, Vol. 3].
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Under the name “energetism”, the history of philosophy combines different concepts, which consider energy as a substance (either the only absolute substance or, along with matter, one of two basic substances).
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Among those who sent letters to nominate Mach were also Hendrick Lorentz and Wilhelm Ostwald; see [48, 159].
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Richard von Mises wrote in the Foreword to his book “Probability, statistics and truth” that he started to elaborate his approach to probability as early as his Strasbourg years [367].
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However, Richard von Mises’ philosophical lecture about modern physics [365, 366] got a Russian-speaking reader in 1924.
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Pechenkin, A. (2019). Youth and Strasbourg Years. In: L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17685-3_2
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