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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] This paper is mainly about anticipation in relativity and quantum theory. According to the author, ``the almost forgotten genius'' Paul Gerber anticipated Einstein's explanation of the perihelion shift of Mercury, Heaviside anticipated Čerenkov, Frank and Tamm by predicting in 1898 that particles can exceed the speed of light in a physical medium, Maxwell anticipated the basic statement of special relativity theory (''\(E=mc^ 2\) was a direct implication of classical electromagnetic wave theory'') and even quantum electrodynamics (``there is in fact no contradiction ... between Maxwellian electromagnetic theory and quantum electrodynamics''). In quantum physics, the author gives credit to ''Bohr's epoch-making discovery'', the dependence of quantum theory on integers or half integers. Born's and Heisenberg's contributions are considered as less important, because ``Heisenberg's uncertainty relation changed that [i.e. Bohr's] characteristic not a whit''. The paper also contains some testable predictions that would indeed revolutionize modern physics in case of confirmation by observation or experiment: 1. With powerful experimental apparatus, particles could be accelerated to speeds exceeding the speed of radiation ``in any medium including the physical vacuum''. 2. In addition to red shift due to gravitational fields or Doppler effects, a so-called ``hysteresis red shift'' should be observed, which might ``be very relevant to the phenomena of quasars.'' The author complains that, as far as credit for priority is concerned, modern science is ``dominated and censored by controlling cliques'', and he expresses hope that ``the unclouded physical origins of the mass-energy relation are now clearly seen''. His arguments strongly rely upon published and unpublished material of C. Musès.