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EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph picture postcard signed ('Papa') and autograph letter signed ('Albert', cancelled and replaced by 'Papa') to his sons Hans Albert and Eduard ('Liebe Buben', 'Liebe Kinder'), Marseilles and Kyoto, 7 October and 12 December 1922, half page, 8vo, and one page, 4to, the letter on paper with printed heading of the Miyako Hotel, Kyoto (letter has very light soiling to lower part of page, three small punctures to centre fold, and small tear to lower margin).
A lecture tour in Japan, and the Nobel prize. Einstein is enjoying his travels, although the Japanese leg ('I have already given thirteen lectures') is stressful. He is delighted by the Japanese, whom he likes 'more than any other nationality I've known: quiet, modest, intelligent, artistic and considerate'. News of his receiving the Nobel prize has been confirmed: 'Now you will definitely get the Nobel prize. Start looking around for a house. The surplus will be deposited in your names...Soon after I get back...I will have to go to Stockholm to receive the prize'. The picture postcard is from Marseilles on the eve of his departure for Japan, reporting that Michele Besso and Lucien Chavan (old friends and fellow scientists) are seeing him off.
Einstein had been nominated for the Nobel prize for physics every year but two from 1910 to 1922. He eventually received the award in 1921 for his work in theoretical physics and in particular for his work on the photoelectric effect. On Einstein's own suggestion it had been agreed as part of the divorce from Mileva in 1919 that any money he might receive if he won the Nobel prize would go to her and the children: the sum awarded amounted to $32,000, and enabled Mileva to buy three houses in Zurich, in one of which she lived for the rest of her life. (2)
A lecture tour in Japan, and the Nobel prize. Einstein is enjoying his travels, although the Japanese leg ('I have already given thirteen lectures') is stressful. He is delighted by the Japanese, whom he likes 'more than any other nationality I've known: quiet, modest, intelligent, artistic and considerate'. News of his receiving the Nobel prize has been confirmed: 'Now you will definitely get the Nobel prize. Start looking around for a house. The surplus will be deposited in your names...Soon after I get back...I will have to go to Stockholm to receive the prize'. The picture postcard is from Marseilles on the eve of his departure for Japan, reporting that Michele Besso and Lucien Chavan (old friends and fellow scientists) are seeing him off.
Einstein had been nominated for the Nobel prize for physics every year but two from 1910 to 1922. He eventually received the award in 1921 for his work in theoretical physics and in particular for his work on the photoelectric effect. On Einstein's own suggestion it had been agreed as part of the divorce from Mileva in 1919 that any money he might receive if he won the Nobel prize would go to her and the children: the sum awarded amounted to $32,000, and enabled Mileva to buy three houses in Zurich, in one of which she lived for the rest of her life. (2)
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