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Document 43669

GUSTAV HERTZ. Black-bordered ALS: "G. Hertz", 1p, 5¾x7. Berlin-Dahlem, 1941 December 22. To Dr. Rosbaud. In German, translated. In full: "I address to you my most heartfelt thanks for the bouquet of flowers you sent me on the occasion of my wife's death." Gustav Hertz (1887-1975) and James Franck shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom." At the time of this letter, Hertz was working in Berlin as Director of the Siemens and Halske Company's research laboratory, a position the Nazi government allowed him to hold despite his wife Ellen's anti-Nazi sentiments and the fact that his father was a Jew. Erased pencil notes (unknown hand) at upper margin, 2 file holes at blank left edge. Fine condition. Framed in the Gallery of History style: 28½x20½.

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