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"A recently rediscovered obscure paper by a then up-and-coming young physicist named Albert Einstein on superconductivity has been published on Cornell University's arXiv e-print service on the Web.

The paper, "Theoretical Remark on the Superconductivity of Metals," was written in 1922 for a symposium honoring Dutch scientist Kamerlingh Onnes, the discoverer of superconductivity, and published by the University of Leiden in the proceedings of the symposium. And there, apparently, it remained largely unnoticed until this year, when it was rediscovered by Neil Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics at Cornell, and translated from German into English by Björn Schmekel, then a Cornell graduate student and now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California-Berkeley.

The paper contains nothing revolutionary from the point of view of today's researchers in superconductivity, but it is, Ashcroft said, "a totally charming paper," with significant insights for its......

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