Über einen der Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtpunkt. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, 17. Band, 1905

by Albert Einstein

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First edition

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. / First edition, rare author’s presentation offprint ‘Überreicht vom Verfasser’ , from the library of Arnold Sommerfeld — with his signature, red-pencil collection number, and autograph calculations in the margins — of the paper on light quanta and the photoelectric effect for which Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize, and the only one of his 1905 papers that Einstein himself

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