FUERTH

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Eleven items from Fürth's scientific archives, including an autograph notebook written during his time as Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics at Prague University, two typewritten papers (one signed 'R. Fürth'), and offprints of papers.

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Professor Reinhold Fürth [Furth; Fuerth] (b. Prague, 1893; d.1979), FRSE, theoretical physicist, of the German University in Prague and Birkbeck College, assoicate of Max Born
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Dated items between 1935 and 1950. (Notebook earlier?)
£850.00

Fürth obtained his doctorate from the German University in Prague. From the beginning of the Second World War he was a research assistant to Max Born at Edinburgh University. After the war he became one of Born’s principal research collaborators, before moving to Birkbeck College in London. The archive as a whole is in good condition, on aged paper, with the text of all the items clear and complete. ITEM ONE: Quarto (28.5 x 22 cm) graph-paper notebook, with around 100 pages in German, apparently listing, with circuit diagrams, the results of electrical experiments. Occasional insertions.

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Autograph Card Signed ('Dorothy Wrinch'), in German, to Fürth.

Author: 
Dorothy Wrinch [Dorothy Maud Wrinch] (1894-1976), mathematician [Professor Reinhold Fürth (1893-1979) of Birkbeck College, theoretical physicist; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]
Publication details: 
28 June 1934; on her Lady Margaret Hall letterhead.
£56.00

Card (9 x 11 cm), 2 pp. Nine lines of text. Neatly and closely written. Addressed to 'Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!' Placed by Fürth, with a page of his autograph notes, in an envelope addressed by Wrinch 'Herr Doktor Professor Fürth'.

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