For die-hard Albert Einstein fans
that have always wanted to know more about the life of reputable
theoretical physicist, a massive new archive
of digitised files stemming from his life and works will let you do
just that.
Released 5 December by Princeton University, the project,
entitled The Digital Einstein Papers is an open-access
site for all the papers that Einstein ever wrote.
Headed by Diana Kormos-Buchwald, a physicist and historian at
the California Institute of Technology, in charge of compiling and
editing the documents, the online archive comprises 13 volumes,
which have been published so far by the editors of the Einstein
Papers Project. This expansive quantity of the genius' scribbles
spans both the thinker's academic papers as well as letters from
his youth to 1923.
Don't
miss
While the volumes are all in German, they come replete with
in-depth English language annotations, so that non-German speaking
Albert fans can still have access to the thinker's thoughts and
life details. In any case, the website states that curious readers
can still "toggle to an English translation of most documents".
If you're at a loss at how to cope with all this material, the
site also features a dedicated "How to" section, which details how
you can access and browse through all this Einstein-driven
data.
With 7,000 pages representing 2,900 unique documents digitised
so far, this archive allows everyone to spend some quality time
with Einstein, albeit in his digitised form.
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The Digital Einstein Papers gives public access to Albert's life
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