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Habicht and Einstein invented a meter for measuring very small electric potentials in millivolts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=The Machine - Albert Einstein in a letter to Conrad Habicht, 4 March 1910 |url=https://einstein-website.de/en/maschinchen/ |website=einstein-website.de |publisher=einstein-website |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Illy |first1=József |title=The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/674492?journalCode=isis |website=U Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> |
Habicht and Einstein invented a meter for measuring very small electric potentials in millivolts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=The Machine - Albert Einstein in a letter to Conrad Habicht, 4 March 1910 |url=https://einstein-website.de/en/maschinchen/ |website=einstein-website.de |publisher=einstein-website |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Illy |first1=József |title=The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/674492?journalCode=isis |website=U Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> |
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Einstrin wrote to Habicht about his first attempt to explain the perihelion advance of Mercury.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=A Chronology of the Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years - Letter To Conrad Habicht 24 December 1907 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400865765-009/pdf |website=degruyter |publisher=Princeton University Press |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref> |
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==Later Life== |
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Conrad Habicht (December 28, 1876 in Schaffhausen – October 23, 1958 in Schaffhausen) was a Swiss mathematician and close personal friend of Albert Einstein. Together with Maurice Solovine, the three founded the Olympia Academy, an informal circle of friends who met together in Bern from 1902 to 1904 to discuss physics and philosophy.[1][2][3]
Habicht and Solovine were the only two witnesses to Einstein's 1903 wedding to Mileva Marić.
Habicht was the recipient of Einstein's 1905 letter[4] in which Einstein described his Annus Mirabilis papers. Habich also received Einstein's letter about quanta.[5]
Einstein and Solovine lost contact with Habicht but regained contact in 1947.[6]
Early Life
Habicht came from a middle class family in Schaffhausen and grew up there with four brothers and sisters. Son of Johann Conrad Habicht, merchant, and Susanna Elisabetha Oechslin, from Schaffhausen. In 1913 he married Anna Margarethe Kehlstadt, teacher, from Basel. He studied mathematics and physics in Zurich, Munich and Berlin, earning a doctors degree in 1903 at Bern, writing a dissertation on series of circles by Steiner. He studied violin.[7]
University And School Teacher
Habicht taught university master's level mathematics and physics 11 years at Schiers in the Canton of the Graubünden where he also played violin. Then he taught mathematics and physics 33 years at Schaffhausen Canton high school, retiring in 1948.[8]
Habicht and Einstein invented a meter for measuring very small electric potentials in millivolts.[9][10]
Einstrin wrote to Habicht about his first attempt to explain the perihelion advance of Mercury.[11]
Later Life
Habicht was in retirement from teaching ten years, continuing to direct a local music academy until 1958. He died four years after injury in an accident, survived by his wife, four children and ten grand children.[12]
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References
- ^ Rosenkranz, Arnold (2002). The Einstein Scrapbook (2nd ed.). Jerusalem: Jewish National Library. p. 2. ISBN 0-8018-7203-0.
- ^ Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Conrad Habicht 2 February 1902". einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/. Princeton University. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Brittney, Tom. "Genius (TV Series) Einstein: Chapter Three (2017) Conrad Habicht". metacritic. metacritic. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Letter of Albert Einstein to Conrad Habicht of May 18 or 25, 1905, Document 27 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Conrad Habicht, 14 April 2005". Princeton. Scientific Research. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Einstein, Albert (1987). Letters to Solovine (1st English Trans ed.). New York: Plilosophic Library. p. 95. ISBN 0-8022-2526-8.
- ^ Schneider, Thomas Franz. "Conrad Habicht". hls-dhs-dss. Il Dizionario storico della Svizzera. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ ETH-Bibliothek. "Conrad Habicht". e-periodica. ETH-Bibliothek. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Einstein, Albert. "The Machine - Albert Einstein in a letter to Conrad Habicht, 4 March 1910". einstein-website.de. einstein-website. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Illy, József. "The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions". U Chicago. University of Chicago.
- ^ Einstein, Albert. "A Chronology of the Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years - Letter To Conrad Habicht 24 December 1907". degruyter. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Società Elvetica di Scienze Naturali. "Conrad Habicht". e-periodica. ETH-Bibliothek. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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