Johannes Stark "The Stark Effect" ALS
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Johannes Stark "The Stark Effect" ALS
Autograph letter signed by Johannes Stark from 23 September 1914, the year after he discovered the Stark Effect for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In addition to discussing papers to be included in the "Annals of Physics", Stark mentions that both his assistants "are in the war zone", fighting for Germany during World War I. Composed in German, Stark writes to fellow Nobel Prize winning physicist Wilhelm Wien on letterhead from the Institute of Physics of the Royal Technical College in Aachen, Germany. Letter translates in part, "…I am sending you the enclosed three papers (by Kirschbaum, Wendt, Stark and Lunelund) and kindly ask that you include them in the Annalen der Physik [Annals of Physics]. / Both of my assistants, Wendt and Kirschbaum, are in the war zone. As they had asked me during a conversation a short time before their departure to their regiments, I undertook to have their papers ready for print and to send them to you. If there is a lot of material for inclusion in the Annals, printing of the paper by myself and Lunelund may be put on hold in favor of more important ones…J. Stark".
Single page on bifolium stationery measures 5.5" x 8.75" as folded. Light creasing and single fold, overall in very good to near fine condition.
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