Danish physicist awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1922 for his theory of atomic structure. ALS in Danish, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Copenhagen letterhead, February 28, 1917. Lengthy letter to a friend (probably male, perhaps a colleague), translated in part: “I send you this greeting through Dr. H.A. Kramers, Dutch physicist...who is traveling on Bexx to Sweden...to teach Swedish physicists and mathematicians to...and who very much wishes to meet you. You may have been wondering why you’ve not heard from me, and I have had so many things...Since I came back from England had some hard work with my university duties, so my work with the Quantum Theory Constitution (Basic Law) I wrote to you about from England isn’t completed, and I thought I shouldn’t write to you until I was able to tell you more about it. I have had very great joy from my teamwork with Dr. Kramers, who I think is competent...We have worked together and the Helium and spectra and have made a rather large work on the mechanical aspects of...We have accomplished a partial conformity with the measurements, which I believe will prove to be very interesting. I hope you will have a nice time and long to meet you again; but as long as the desperate...In the world...I will not go to Sweden...the day soon that brings Peace. There are so many things I will talk with you about, but now I will enjoy myself with what Dr. Kramers has to tell when he comes back to Copenhagen again. I have...not told you that a few months ago have had a son. Both my wife and son are well. My wife sends together with me the best wishes and...on the new year...” The Hendrick A. Kramers referred to in this letter was a Dutch physicist who won the Hughes Medal in 1951. A crater on the Moon is named after him. In fine condition. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
