Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, 20. Bd., 1906

by Albert Einstein

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. First edition, very rare author’s presentation offprint “Überreicht vom Verfasser” , from the library of the great German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, of this brilliant follow-up to Einstein’s landmark 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect, for which he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics. “Thomas Kuhn has argued that it is not to Planck

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