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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Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed6021 - Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed
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Brilliant American physicist (1904-1967) who directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and who spearheaded the Manhattan Project, leading
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed6022 - Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS in German, signed “Planck,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 23, 1925. Significant letter to physicist Wilhelm Wien, about t
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Estimate : 8,000.00 - 10,000.00
 
 
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Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed6023 - Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed
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Nobel Prize-winning German physicist (1858-1947) who pioneered the understanding of quantum theory; his Planck's constant is ubiquitous in the r...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed6024 - Max Planck Autograph Letter Signed
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Nobel Prize-winning German physicist (1858-1947) who pioneered the understanding of quantum theory; his Planck's constant is ubiquitous in the r...
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Wilhelm Rontgen Hand-Addressed Envelope6025 - Wilhelm Rontgen Hand-Addressed Envelope
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Distinguished German physicist (1845–1923) who discovered X-rays in 1895, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1901. Hand-addressed envelope fr
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Erwin Schrodinger, John von Neumann, and Physicists Archive of (10) Letters6026 - Erwin Schrodinger, John von Neumann, and Physicists Archive of (10) Letters
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Marvelous correspondence archive of physicist Marcus Campbell Goodall, containing ten letters addressed to him by six illustrious researchers from the
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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John von Neumann Typed Letter Signed6027 - John von Neumann Typed Letter Signed
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Mathematician (1903–1957) who made contributions to nearly every technical field and made major strides in game theory, nuclear physics, and computer
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Hideki Yukawa Autograph Manuscript Signed6028 - Hideki Yukawa Autograph Manuscript Signed
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Japanese theoretical physicist (1907–1981) who became the first Japanese Nobel laureate with the receipt of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics 'for...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Marie François Xavier Bichat Document Signed6029 - Marie François Xavier Bichat Document Signed
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French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802) known as the father of histology, who is respected as one of the greatest scientists in the area of medic
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Jean-Nicolas Corvisart Autograph Letter Signed6030 - Jean-Nicolas Corvisart Autograph Letter Signed
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French physician (1755–1821) who gained a reputation as an expert in cardiology and was Napoleon’s personal physician. Untranslated ALS in French, sig
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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