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Marian Smoluchowski (On the tenth anniversary of his death)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2022

Boris M. Hessen
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Science in Context , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 137 - 141
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Footnotes

1

The following is a translation of Gessen 1927b: 144–148. Hessen’s original references have been replaced by references to English translations where possible. References to texts not cited by Hessen have been provided by the translator. This translation was completed with the aid of translation software [Translator’s Note; hereafter, ‘TN’].

2

An overall assessment of Smoluchowski’s work has been provided in Einstein 1917, 107–108; Sommerfeld 1927, 533–539.

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German

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Russian

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