艾尔伯特.爱因斯坦的反纳粹精神

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原文: Albert Einstein's Anti-nazism

Albert Einstein was a German physicist best known for the theory of relativity and specifically mass energy equivalence. He received a Nobel prize for hi contribution to the field of Physics. He worked as a professor in Germany till December, 1932. Though he is a native German, he had to reside in the United States from 1932 till his death.

In January of 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany. His administration took many immediate actions and one of the very first of them was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. According to this, Jews and politically suspected government employees were removed from their jobs and the people who had showed their loyalty to the government of Germany(which was determined by their participation in the World War I) were spared. Government employees also included the university professors.

In response to this impending threat, in December, 1932, Albert Einstein went to the US. For some years he stayed at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He also gave guest lectures at Abraham Flexner's then newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey during the same period.

He bought a house in Princeton and he continued to be an integral contributor to the Institute for Advanced Study(till his death in 1955). In the 1930s and during the World War II, he wrote affidavits recommending visas to United States for the Jews trying to flee from Europe. He raised money for Zionist organizations and is in a way responsible for the formation of the International Rescue Committee in 1933.

In these years in Germany, a campaign was led in Germany demanding to remove Einstein's works from the German books as "unacceptable Jewish Physics". This campaign was led by Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark. Some activists even went on a level to publish textbooks and pamphlets, criticizing Einstein and his work. . The lecturers and professors who taught Einstein's theories and work were blacklisted. Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg was blacklisted as he taught the students the quantum probability. Philipp Lenard even claimed that the mass–energy equivalence formula of Einstein should be credited to Friedrich Hasenohrl if it had to made an Aryan creation.

In 1940, Albert Einstein became a citizen of the United States and he remained there till his death in 1955(though in the meantime he retained his Swiss citizenship).

译文: 艾尔伯特.爱因斯坦的反纳粹精神

      艾尔伯特.爱因斯坦是一位德国物理学家,最广为人知的便是他的相对论和能量守衡定律。他因其对物理学所作出的巨大的贡献而荣获了诺贝尔奖,直到1932年以前,他一直是德国的一名教授。虽然他是地道的德国人,但是却不得不于1932移居美国直到离世。

      1933年1月,阿道夫.希特勒被任命为德国总理。他执政之后便立即采取了一系列举措,最先实施地便是恢复职业公务员职务法案。根据该法案,犹太人以及受到政治猜忌的政府雇员被剥夺了工作,而对德国政府表现忠诚的一些人(l参与一次世界大战)则被保留任用。而政府雇员也包括大学教授。

     由于日益迫近的危胁,艾尔伯特.爱因斯坦于1932年12月去了美国。有几年的时间,他一直呆在帕萨迪纳市的加利佛里亚理工学院。当时亚伯拉罕.佛雷克斯纳在新泽西的普林斯顿新建了高等研究院,在那段时期,爱因斯坦也去那里讲课。

     他在普林斯顿买房子后,就继续在高等研究学院钻研积分学(直到1955年去世),在20世纪30年代和二战时期,他写下担保书帮助那些试图逃离欧洲的犹太人获得美国签证。他还为犹太复国组织筹集资金,从而在某种程度上促使了1933年国际救援委员会的诞生。

      而在这一时期的德国,掀起了一场“无法接受的犹太式物理学”运动将爱因斯坦清除出了德国的书本,引领这场运动的是名叫菲利普.莱纳德和约翰尼斯.斯塔克的两个诺贝尔奖获得者。有些激进分子甚至还出版教科书和小册子批判爱因斯坦和他所取得的成就。那些向学生们讲授爱因斯坦的理论及作品的讲师和教授们也被列入了黑名单。诺贝尔奖得主沃纳.海森伯格就是因为向学生们讲授爱因斯坦的量子概率而被拉入黑名单的。菲利普.莱纳德甚至宣称,如果爱因斯坦的质能当量公式确实创造了一个雅利安时代,那也应归功于弗里德里希.哈泽内尔。

      1940年,艾尔伯特.爱因斯坦成为美国公民,直到1955年辞世前,他一直居住在美国。(他同时也保有瑞士国籍。)