Student Uncovers Key Manuscript by Einstein
From Times Wire Reports
The original manuscript of a paper by Albert Einstein that was published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University’s Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said.
The handwritten manuscript titled “Quantum Theory of the Monatomic Ideal Gas” is dated December 1924. It is considered one of Einstein’s last great breakthroughs.
“It was quite exciting” when a student working on his master’s thesis uncovered the delicate manuscript written in Einstein’s distinctive scrawl, said professor Carlo Beenakker.
Einstein was a frequent guest lecturer at Leiden in the 1920s.
