  [Translation of and Commentary on L\'eon Rosenfeld's "Ueber die
Gravitationwirkungen des Lichtes", Zeitschrift fur Physik 65: 589-599 (1930).
Originally published in German. Submitted for publication on September 26,
1930. See [1] in the Comments with References section before reading this
English translation.] The gravitational field generated by an electromagnetic
field is calculated using of laws of quantum mechanics and it is shown that the
resulting gravitational energy turns out to be infinitely large, raising a new
difficulty for the Heisenberg-Pauli quantum theory of wave fields. In addition,
the transition processes in first-order approximation involving light and
gravitational quanta are briefly discussed.
