Albert Einstein

Nobel Prize lecture

Lecture delivered to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists at Gothenburg, July 11, 1923

Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967

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From Les Prix Nobel en 1921-1922, Editor Carl Gustaf Santesson, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1923

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