The major project will be launched on May 19, during a scientific conference in New York, and more than 900 scientific documents will be uploaded on a new website
The genius of the century, Albert Einstein, finally "comes up" on the Internet.
Next week, May 19, during a scientific conference that will be held at the Museum of Natural History in New York, on the life and work of the father of the theory of relativity, Prof. Albert Einstein - this great project will also be launched, along with more than 900 scientific documents and many others that have had an intellectual impact on the past decades of the modern era - will be uploaded on a new website on the Internet.
This is a joint project between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which holds the Einstein archive, and the California Institute of Technology, Cal-Tech, from Pasadena.
In addition to the scientific documents, the site will have about 3000 high quality digital images related to Einstein, his life and research. 39 documents will be in PDF format, some in German, the language in which he wrote his outstanding studies, and also comments in English and some of the documents are translated. They were given to the electronic archive by Princeton University where Einstein taught. It will also be possible to access through the website more than 40 thousand manuscripts related to Einstein's research as well as his manuscripts on professional-scientific topics, personal letters and diaries he wrote during his travels abroad, including his visit to the Land of Israel in 1925 on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone for the university Hebrew in Jerusalem.
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An Internet archive of the great physicist's papers, which will present documents that have never been published, will open on Monday
The scientific works of the great physicist Albert Einstein and other documents penned by him, some of which have never been published, will soon come out of the archives and be presented on a new website.
The website, the result of a collaboration between the "Einstein Papers Project" and
The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will allow surfers access to approximately 3,000 photographs of the Nobel laureate's writings, said the project's editor, Diana Buchwald from the California Institute of Technology.
Among other things, documents related to the theory of relativity, Einstein's travel diaries, and his statements on the right to peace and humanitarian issues will be presented on the site. The online Einstein archives will start operating this Monday, when a symposium on Einstein's life and work will be held at the Museum of Natural Sciences in New York.
Buchwald stated that the site will also provide a catalog of 40 items from Einstein's works and letters, most of which are written in the scientist's handwriting. "Reading his manuscripts is a particularly heartwarming experience. He knew how to express himself precisely and very clearly. His wording is very legible, and his handwriting is beautiful, and therefore creates a feeling of intimacy with the material," said Buchwald.
The original documents, which his secretary Helen Dukes collected during Einstein's lifetime and after his death in 1955, are kept at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The "Einstein Papers Project", designed to publish all his writings in chronological order, began about 25 years ago. Since 2000, the project has been centered at the California Institute of Technology, in the city of Pasadena. So far eight volumes have been completed out of 25 planned.
The new website will start operating on Monday night (Israel time), at the address: Albert Einstein's website
