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On the Unification Problem in Physics

TH. KALUZA

Königsberg, Russia

Revised translation by V. T. Toth, based in part on translation by T. Muta, HUPD-8401, March 1984, Dep. Phys. Univ. Hiroshima.

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SPECIAL ISSUE — Selected Essays from the Annual Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation 2018 and Invited Papers; Editor: D. V. Ahluwalia

Submitted by Mr. Einstein on December 8, 1921; s. above, p. 859.

Zum Unitätsproblem der Physik, Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Math. Phys.) 1921, 966–972

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