Group portrait at Pierre Weiss's Laboratory

Tea in Pierre Weiss's Laboratory in the Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, Spring; Front row from Formal group portrait of L-R: Karl F. Herzfeld, Otto Stern, Albert Einstein, Auguste Picard (Weiss' assistant, later a balloonist), René Fortrat (Weiss' assistant, author of Fortrat diagram - frequency of diatomic molecules as function of rot, qu. Number), A. J. Grigorjeff, translator of Chevolson's Lehrbuch der Physik from Russian into German, visitor; Back row L-R: Unidentified, Paul Ehrenfest, Unidentified, Gabriel Foëx, and Frithiof (Fred) Wolfers. Foëx and Wolfers were also Weiss' assistants. The two ladies in the back row are Dutch high school teachers, and a caption says one of them could be named van Leeuwen., Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, gift of Karl F. Herzfeld
Abstract/Description: Tea in Pierre Weiss's Laboratory in the Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, Spring; Front row from Formal group portrait of L-R: Karl F. Herzfeld, Otto Stern, Albert Einstein, Auguste Picard (Weiss' assistant, later a balloonist), René Fortrat (Weiss' assistant, author of Fortrat diagram - frequency of diatomic molecules as function of rot, qu. Number), A. J. Grigorjeff, translator of Chevolson's Lehrbuch der Physik from Russian into German, visitor; Back row L-R: Unidentified, Paul Ehrenfest, Unidentified, Gabriel Foëx, and Frithiof (Fred) Wolfers. Foëx and Wolfers were also Weiss' assistants. The two ladies in the back row are Dutch high school teachers, and a caption says one of them could be named van Leeuwen.
Subject(s): Portraits
Laboratories
Portraits, Group
Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-
Stern, Otto, 1888-1969
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933
Date Created: 1913
Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, gift of Karl F. Herzfeld
Catalog ID: Herzfeld Karl E1