شنبه, ۱۶ تیر, ۱۴۰۳ / 6 July, 2024
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افسردگی آلبرت انیشتن بخاطر نمره های آنچنانی


افسردگی آلبرت انیشتن بخاطر نمره های آنچنانی

آلبرت انیشتن پس از آن که موفق نشد به خاطر نمرات نه چندان درخشانش آن حرفه ی دانشگاهی را که از نوجوانی آرزو می کرد به دست آورد, بسیار افسرده شده بود

آلبرت انیشتن پس از آن که موفق نشد به‌خاطر نمرات نه چندان درخشانش آن حرفه‌ی دانشگاهی را که از نوجوانی آرزو می‌کرد به دست آورد، بسیار افسرده شده بود. پدرش که از افسردگی فرزند رنج می‌برد، نامه‌ای به شرح زیر برای ویلهلم اُسوالد، استاد دانشگاه لایپزیگ فرستاد، تا او را قانع کند تا فرزندش را به عنوان دستیار بپذیرد:

April ۱۳ ۱۹۰۱

Professor Willhel, Ostwald

University of Leipzig

Leipzig, Germany

Esteemed Herr Professor!

Please forgive a father who is so bold as to turn to you, esteemed Herr Professor, in the interest of his son.

I shall start by telling you that my son Alber is ۲۲ years old, that he studied at the Zurich Pilytechnikym for ۴ years, and that he passed his diploma examinations in mathematics and pysics with flying colors last summer. Since then, he has been trying unsuccessfully to obtain a position as Assistant, which would enable him to continue his education in theoretical and experimental physics. All those in position to give a judgment in the matter, praise his talents; in any case, I can assure you that he is extraordinarily studious and diligent and clings with great love to his science.

My son therefore feels profoundly unhappy with his present lack of position, and his idea that he has gone off the tracks with his career and is now out of touch gets more and more entrenched each day. In addition, he is oppressed by the thought that he is a burden on us, people of modest means.

Since it is you, highly honored Herr Professor, whom my son seems to admire, and esteem more than any other scholar currently active in physics, it is you to whom I have take the liberty of turning with the humble request to read his paper published in the Annalen fur Physick and to write him, if possible, a few words of encouragement, so that he might recover his joy in living and working.

If, in addition, you could ensure him an Assistant۰۳۹;s position for now or the next autumn, my gratitude would know no bounds.

I beg you once again to forgive me for my impudence in writing to you, and I am also taking the liberty of mentioning that my son does not know anything about my unusual step.

I remain, highly esteemed Herr Professor, your devoted

Herman Einstein