Il primo articolo di Albert Einstein: tensione superficiale di liquidi organici e struttura molecolare

The first paper published by Albert Einstein in the Annalen der Physik in 1901 was related in same way to the molecular structure of organic substances. Einstein was interested ti characteriza the forces acting between the molecules and found support for the model he described in the manuscript from the experimental data on the surface tension of organic substances in the liquid state reported in contributions by Eotvos and by Ramsay and Shields. einstein found the data he needed following suggestions found in the third edition of the Grundriss der Allgemeinen Chemie (Compendium of General Chemistry) published by Ostwald in 1899. Einstein sent a reprint of his contribution to Ostwald in March 1901 togheter with a letter asking whether a physical-mathematical like himself could be useful for the researches that were going on his laboratory.