H. A. Lorentz als Schöpfer und als Persönlichkeit.

[Leiden, 1953]. 8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 8 pp. + frontispiece-portrait of Lorentz.

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First printing of Einstein's essay on Hendrik Lorentz, a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Einstein was particulaly interested and indebted to Lorenz Lorenz derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.