 Nernst became friendly with Kaiser Wilhelm, whom he persuaded to found the "Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft" for the Advancement of the Sciences with an initial capital of eleven million marks.Nernst's laboratory discovered that at low temperatures specific heats fell markedly and would probably disappear at absolute zero.This fall was predicted for liquids and solids in a 1909 paper of Albert Einstein's on the quantum mechanics of specific heats at cryogenic temperatures.