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Lively autograph letter signed by Nobel winning quantum physicist pioneer Max Planck, who writes to fellow physicist Paul Epstein. Dated 19 January 1938, Planck muses on the first law of thermodynamics (before it was recognized as such), responding to Epstein’s mention of the 18th century scientist Albrecht von Haller learning that liquid warms by shaking. On Planck’s personal stationery, letter in German reads in full, ”Dear Doctor! / Your kind letter of the 17th of this month and the attached article on the background of the first fundamental theorem gave me great pleasure, for which I thank you sincerely. Concerning the content of your essay, your mentioning of [Albrecht von] Haller’s finding that ‘water, as well as milk, when moved vigorously, could reach a certain degree of warmth,’ was of particular interest to me. I remember exactly one of the stories told by my teacher in Munich, Philipp [von] Jolly, who was personally acquainted with J. R. [Julius Robert von] Mayer, relating that one day Mayer had burst into his room exclaiming, full of a discoverer’s joy, that water could be warmed by means of vigorous shaking. So someone else had already arrived there first after all. / But your letter made me happy in personal terms as well, since it was the first direct sign of life from you after some time. I am in awe about how much, considering your weakened physical condition, particularly with respect to your vision, you are still able to achieve. Many would envy even your firm handwriting. May this mental acuity remain with you during the new year as well. Very warm regards. / Yours respectfully, / M. Planck”. Two page letter on a single sheet measures 5.875” x 7”. Single fold, staple puncture and light toning. Very good condition. Sold for $2,500.
Albert Einstein typed letter signed during World War II, with moving content regarding helping Jewish refugees. Dated 10 June 1939 on his personal embossed letterhead from Princeton, Einstein writes to Dr. Maurice Lenz who worked on ”behalf of the refugees during Dedication Week.” Einstein continues, ”…The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years has been based to a large extent on traditions of mutual helpfulness. In these years of affliction our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test. May we stand this test as well as did our fathers before us.
We have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause.
It must be a source of deep gratification to you to be making so important a contribution toward rescuing our persecuted fellow-Jews from their calamitous peril and leading them toward a better future…[signed] A. Einstein”.
Single page letter measures 8.5” x 11”. Folds and light creasing, otherwise near fine condition. Accompanied by Einstein’s embossed mailing envelope, postmarked Princeton on 12 June 1939. Sold for $134,344.
Very rare Albert Einstein autograph on his photo, on the occasion of the Nobel Prize winner playfully sticking out his tongue to a group of photographers on his 72nd birthday. Photo was snapped on 14 March 1951 by Arthur Sasse, a UPI photographer whose employers were at first hesitant about publishing the iconoclastic image of Einstein; when they did, Einstein was so amused by it that he ordered several prints to give out to close friends. This image is unlike most which crop the photo to show only Einstein. Here, the photo is shown in its full context with Einstein seated between Dr. Frank Aydelotte, head of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, and Aydelotte’s wife, after celebrating his birthday at the Princeton Club. Photo is signed along the left margin ”A. Einstein .51”, indicating he signed the image shortly after it was taken. Albert Einstein autograph photo measures 7” x 10”. Very good to near fine condition. Extraordinarily rare Albert Einstein autograph on his photo, the most famous and beloved image of him. Sold for $125,000.
Richard Feynman Handwritten Diary-Style Document, Trying to Understand the Faulty Decision Making at NASA After the Challenger Disaster — “…the ‘fairyland’ feeling I get reading NASA reports…”
Richard Feynman handwritten manuscript, composed while Feynman served on the Rogers Commission to investigate the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Feynman appears to try to understand the faulty decision making at NASA and Morton-Thikol that led to the disaster, writing free association on these two pages in a fascinating diary-style document. Feynman dates the document as “Sunday Mar 29, 1985″, however 29 March doesn’t fall on a Sunday in either 1985 or 1986, so it’s unclear when the document was written, although it seems to be from the time of the Rogers Commission. Two page document on a single sheet measures 8.375″ x 11”. Near fine condition. From the estate of Richard Feynman. Sold for $16,800.
Richard Feynman 2 8vo Green Ink Notes 2/10/86
Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman & the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51-L) Disaster: “Notes on Conference Call with Kutyna & Titan People” Dated February 10 [1986]. Two pages in green ink on 5″ x 8″ plain white notepaper. He quickly jots down various key words and phrases as they spoke, such as: “Titan, tighter tolerance, not as much joint rotation, insulation joint, no pressure check.”, “General Thermal sensitivity, This flight: any loads ? beyond norm”, “Analysis O-rings to determine differential of expansion on joints at O rings.”, “Any change in ZnCrO4 [zinc chromate] battery compound. Tested characteristics of ZnCrO4 at 51-L Temp.”, etc. A very important group of notes regarding a conversation held between the two men who discovered the real cause of the Challenger disaster. Very fine. General Donald J. Kutyna, an Air Force General, manager of the Department of Defense Space Shuttle program, and heavily involved with Titan and Atlas space boosters, was a friend and ally of Feynman’s on the Challenger commission. Kutyna was a friend of Sally Ride’s (also a commission member); she handed him (in secret) a NASA document regarding the resiliency of O-rings as a function of temperature. “I wondered how I could introduce this information Sally had given me. So I had Feynman at my house for dinner. I have a 1973 Opel GT, a really cute car. We went out to the garage, and I’m bragging about the car, but he could care less about cars. I had taken the carburetor out. And Feynman said, ‘What’s this?’ And I said, ‘Oh, just a carburetor. I’m cleaning it.’ Then I said, ‘Professor, these carburetors have O-rings in them. And when it gets cold, they leak. Do you suppose that has anything to do with our situation?’ He did not say a word. We finished the night, and the next Tuesday, at the first public meeting, is when he did his O-ring demonstration.” (Dean, Margaret Lazarus. January 28, 2016. “An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster”. Popular Mechanics.) Sold for $14,700.
1910 Marie Curie Autograph Letter Signed “M. Curie” — “…An article concerning the Radium Institute is completely false [and] obviously conceived with malicious intent…”
Interesting Marie Curie autograph letter signed, dated 6 November 1910 from Paris on “Faculté des Sciences de Paris” letterhead, regarding construction of the famous Curie Radium Institute. Following the death of her husband Pierre Curie in 1906, Marie took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculté des Sciences, the first woman to hold this position. An onslaught of slanderous articles were written about her at this time, particularly as she began an affair with another scientist who was married. Letter, written in French, is addressed to the director of the newspaper “Les Temps” and reads: “An article concerning the Radium Institute which recently appeared in the last issue of the ‘Cri de Paris’ has just been forwarded to me. The information contained in this article is completely false. I have not as yet received either the plans or the estimates for this institute, nor have I made any of the demands mentioned in the article. I am hoping that this article, obviously conceived with malicious intent, will not be accepted by the press in a manner likely to contribute to the propagation of such a myth.” Letter, measuring 5.25″ x 8.5″ on one page, has minor toning, else near fine condition. Sold for $7,866.
”Atomic Energy for Military Purposes”, signed in 1946 during the Manhattan Project by six of the most important individuals who developed this first atomic bomb, including Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Book is the official report of the Manhattan Project, signed on the half-title page by Enrico Fermi, Samuel K. Allison, George B. Kistiakowsky, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, and Robert Oppenheimer. Signatures were acquired by another Manhattan Project scientist, Laurence Cherry, who designed the detonation system for the Fat Man bomb. Hardbound book measures 5.75” x 8”. Some light wear and spotting to boards. Mr. Cherry’s stamp appears on page edges and also on front free endpaper, along with his address and notation that the book was purchased in 1946 at Los Alamos. Very good condition. Sold for $5,000.
Marie Curie Signed Document From Her Institut du Radium
Marie Curie signed “Institut du Radium”, rare as from her own lab and not the more commonly seen Faculty of Sciences of Paris. Signed “M. Curie” as Director of the Laboratory, Curie approves the results of a radium experiment. Document in French is dated 27 July 1921, with handwritten annotations to the document likely completed in the hand of her assistant. Document measures 8.25″ x 12.375″. Folds, uniform toning and light wear, overall in very good plus condition. Rare signed document concerning radiation by the twice-awarded Nobel Prize winner. Sold for $4,510.
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