RR Auction: Science and Technology Auction

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Featuring over 300 lots, RR Auction is proud to present our December Science & Technology auction. The highlight of the sale is the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Manne Siegbahn for his discoveries and research in X-ray spectroscopy. Other standout items are an A7L lunar boot created for Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission; important letters from James Watt, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, and Werner Heisenberg; a Macworld magazine signed by Steve Jobs; a mathematical journal owned and signed by John Nash; a highly desirable autograph of Isaac Newton; and material chronicling the history of early aviation. From physics and chemistry to space exploration and beyond, these incredible items tell the story of our shared heritage of innovation.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Carl Sagan Signed Book6131 - Carl Sagan Signed Book
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Signed book: Cosmos. First edition. NY: Random House, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.25 x 10.25, 365 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-titl
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Carl Sagan Typed Letter Signed6132 - Carl Sagan Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Cornell University Center for Radiophysics and Space Research letterhead, April 3, 1995. Letter to Alice V. King of the Chris
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Jonas Salk Signed Book6133 - Jonas Salk Signed Book
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Signed book: World Population and Human Values. First edition. NY: Harper & Row, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket (price-clipped), 8.5 x 11.25, ...
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Jonas Salk Signed Photograph6134 - Jonas Salk Signed Photograph
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Exceptional glossy 8.25 x 10 full-length photo of Salk in a casual outside pose, signed in black ink, "Jonas E. Salk." Reverse bears a Chi...
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Bela Schick Autograph Note Signed and Signed Photograph6135 - Bela Schick Autograph Note Signed and Signed Photograph
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American pediatrician (1877-1967) who devised the Schick test to determine susceptibility to diphtheria and also coined the term 'allergy.' ...
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Glenn Seaborg Signed Typescript and Typed Letter Signed6136 - Glenn Seaborg Signed Typescript and Typed Letter Signed
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1912-1999) who was instrumental in the discovery of several elements. Stapled typescript from the United States Atomic En
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Glenn Seaborg Typed Letter Signed6137 - Glenn Seaborg Typed Letter Signed
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1912-1999) who was instrumental in the discovery of several elements. TLS signed “Glenn T. Seaborg,” one page, 8.5 x 11,
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Glenn Seaborg Typed Letter Signed6138 - Glenn Seaborg Typed Letter Signed
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1912-1999) who was instrumental in the discovery of several elements. TLS signed “Glenn T. Seaborg,” one page, 8 x 10.5,
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Emilio Segre Autograph Letter Signed6139 - Emilio Segre Autograph Letter Signed
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Italian-American physicist (1905–1989) who discovered the antiproton, worked as a group leader for the Manhattan Project, and won the 1959 Nobel Prize
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B. F. Skinner Signed Photograph6140 - B. F. Skinner Signed Photograph
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American psychologist and social philosopher (1904-1990) who was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his re
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