Lot #173

Albert Einstein

Description

Einstein congratulates Weizmann on his scientific institute: "We can hope that it will contribute successfully to the economic and intellectual development of Israel"

TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped personal Princeton letterhead, October 20, 1949. Letter to Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, in full (translated): "I send my kind wishes to you and the members of the Weizmann Institute in Rechovoth on the occasion of its official opening. On the basis of what is known by the Institute, we can hope that it will contribute successfully to the economic and intellectual development of Israel." In fine condition, with scattered light creasing and intersecting folds. Chaim Weizmann founded the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in 1934, fourteen years prior to the foundation of the state of Israel; the multidisciplinary research center was renamed as the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor on November 2, 1949, just eight months after he was elected as Israel’s first president. A biochemist himself, Weizmann had long been dedicated to the scientific education of the Jewish people. He began advocating for a Jewish technological institute in the early 1900s, rallying support that led to the foundation of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1912. He later joined Einstein as a member of the first board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1918. Connecting two of the 20th century's most influential Jewish scientists, this is an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind piece of correspondence. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: Fine Autographs And Artifacts
• Dates: #495 - Ended March 15, 2017

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