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Philipp Lenard Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Albert Einstein, the Photoelectric Effect & Whether Future Generations Who Read This Letter Will Live in a World Where Non-Jews Are Still Alive
Nobel Prize winning physicist Philipp Lenard autograph letter signed, with content on both Lenard’s scientific work, and also his rival Albert Einstein, who Lenard often dismissed as the leader of ”Jewish Physics”. Datelined 22 July 1927 from Heidelberg, Lenard writes to fellow Nobel Prize winning physicist Wilhelm Wien, who he believes shares his anti-semitic views, even though Wien ”probably will not want to write anything about this”.
Lenard begins the letter by referring to his upcoming publications on ”Phosphorescence” and the ”Photoelectric Effect”, and also mentioning whether ”the so-called Compton Effect” would need to be covered more extensively in the article. He then segues to complaining about Albert Einstein’s recent acceptance into the prestigious Bavarian Academy of Sciences based in Munich. The anti-semitic content continues, with Lenard believing the Academy is dominated by Jews, and that Max Planck ”is being pushed upwards because he is a patron of the Jews”. Later in the letter, Lenard even gives a chilling ironic prediction, wondering if future generations, when they read this letter, will even live in a world where non-Jews are still alive. At this time, in 1927, Munich was actually one of the more dangerous cities in Germany for Jews, with Einstein even refusing to visit it on his speaking tour a few years prior. The Nazi party was also rising in power, with Lenard (who coined the term ”Deutsche Physik” or ”Aryan Physics”), one of its early supporters. Two page letter in German measures 7” x 10.5”. Light creasing and fold, overall in near fine condition. With full translation. Sold for $3,125.
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