Letter from Max Bredig to Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, July 10, 1973

2025-04-10T13:23:34-04:00

Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) writes to G. V. R. Born (1921-2018) to follow up to an earlier August 1972 letter to Born, which drew Born's attention to the mistranslation of a letter between Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and Max Born (1882-1970), G .V. R. Born's father.

Bredig explains that the translation error suggests that Kasimir Fajans (1887-1975) had criticized scientist Fritz Haber (1868-1934), when in fact the critique was made by Einstein. Because of his close relationship with Fajans, Bredig hopes that by writing to Born, this error will be corrected.