EINSTEIN, ALBERT. - THE NOBEL LECTURE.

Grundgedanken und Probleme der Relativitätstheorie. (Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity). Vortrag gehalten an der Nordischen Naturforscherversammlung in Gotenburg den 11 Juli 1923. (Basic ideas and problems of the theory of relativity).

Stockholm, Nordstedt & Fils, 1923. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Les Prix Nobel en 1921-1922". Pp. 1-10. Fine and clean.

First edition in the scarce offprint version of Einsteins Nobel lecture. The paper presents the Nobel lecture delivered in Göteborg on July 11, 1923. Because Einstein did not deliver the lecture at the same time as he received the award, it did not concern the prize topic, which was "for his attainments in mathematical physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectrical effect."

In relation to his Nobel Prize, Einstein would have preferred to speak on unified field theory, but he followed Arrhenius proposal "but it is certain that one would be most grateful for a lecture about your relativity theory." On a very hot day in July, Einstein, dressed in a black redingote, addressed an audience of about two thousand in the Jubilee Hall in Göteborg on "basic ideas and problems of the theory of relativity." King Gustav V, who was present, had a pleasant chat with Einstein afterwards. Einstein later gave a second, more technical lecture at Chalmers Technical Institute for about fifty members of the Science Society."(Pais, pp. 504-5).

Weil: 135. - Boni: 136.

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