According to foreign media reports, recently, a letter written by the world-renowned physicist Einstein with his famous formula E=mc2 was sold at RR Auction in Boston for more than $1.2 million.
According to the British "Guardian" report, the auction started on May 13 and ended on the 20th.
The auction house originally expected the letter to sell for approximately $400,000.
According to reports, this is a one-page handwritten letter to Polish-American physicist Ludwik Silberstein, written in German on October 26, 1946.
Einstein wrote at the beginning of the letter: "Your question can be solved with the formula E=mc2 without any other knowledge."
The letter for this auction is from a private collection and has not been made public until recently.
The buyer’s name is unknown.
In 1879, Einstein was born in a middle-class family in Ulm, Germany.
In 1905, when he was only 26 years old, Einstein published three papers and made historic achievements in three different fields of physics. In particular, the special theory of relativity was put forward, which enabled humans to understand the movement of space, time and matter. Revolutionary change.
In 1915, Einstein published his general theory of relativity.
This is another major achievement of modern science after the special theory of relativity.
In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the photoelectric effect.
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