Albert Einstein is the world’s most recognizable, best known and universally loved scientist. He embodies the essence of genius and although he pass

Einstein's handwritten "E= mc2” letter sells for $1.24 million

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2021-05-25 06:00:07

Albert Einstein is the world’s most recognizable, best known and universally loved scientist. He embodies the essence of genius and although he passed away 66 years ago, he is still among the top earning dead celebrities, right up there with the world’s best known actors and rock stars who died with traditional digital royalties. He also established the world’s best known formula: E= mc2. So when a handwritten letter appeared at auction in which Einstein wrote the famous formula in his own hand, it was logical that it should sell for a grand amount. It did, becoming the fourth Einstein letter to sell for more than $1.0 million.

The only known privately held example containing the famous E= mc2 equation, the one-page letter was handwritten by Einstein to Polish-American physicist Ludwik Silberstein, dated October 26, 1946. Ultimately, it sold for $1,243,707 at Boston-based RR Auction.

The letter reads (translated): "Your question can be answered from the E= mc2formula, without any erudition. If E is the energy of your system consisting of the two masses, E0 the energy of the masses when they approach infinite distance, then the system's mass defect is E0 - E / c2.

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