Article ID: CBB020200406

Einstein's Washington Manuscript on Unified Field Theory (2021)

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In this note, we point attention to and briefly discuss a curious manuscript of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled “Unified Field Theory,” the only such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further specification. Apparently never intended for publication, the manuscript sheds light both on Einstein′s modus operandi as well as on the public role of Einstein′s later work on a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism.

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Authors & Contributors
Sauer, Tilman
Halpern, Paul
D'Agostino, Salvo
Blum, Alexander
Torretti, Roberto
Stachel, John J.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Science and Education
Revue de Synthèse
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Pavia University Press
University of Chicago Press
John Wiley & Sons
Harvard University Press
Guaraldi
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Physics
Gravitation
Electromagnetism
Relativity, general
Relativity
Unified field theories
People
Einstein, Albert
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst
Weyl, Hermann
Hilbert, David
Thomson, Joseph John
Soldner, Johann Georg von
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Turin (Italy)
Austria
Institutions
Harvard University
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