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Einstein Papers Project

Welcome

Albert Einstein (1879–1955), one of the foremost scientists and public figures of the 20th century, revolutionized our views of time and space, matter and light, gravitation and the universe.

The Einstein Papers Project is engaged in one of the most ambitious scholarly publishing ventures undertaken in the history of science. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein provides the first complete picture of Einstein’s massive written legacy.

 

Published Volumes

Online / On Paper

With the publication of its most recent Volume 16, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein series now covers Einstein's life and work up to his 50th birthday. It presents, as annotated full text, 600 writings by Einstein and 4,000 letters written by and to him. An additional 4,500 documents appear in abstract.


Einstein Archives Online

A unique resource: You can access our database of 90,000+ records of all known Einstein manuscripts and correspondence and also search the full text of 2,000 digitized items.

While the Archives updates their site, this link provides temporary access to the database.

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News

In Our Time

Diana Buchwald, John Heilbron, and Richard Staley speak on the well-known BBC 4 radio show. [Episode]

NEH Grant

On August 15, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech a $300,000 outright award in its scholarly editions and translations program. The grant will support the preparation for print publication of volumes 17, 18, and 19 of the writings, lectures, and letters of Einstein for the period 1930–1933, which includes Einstein’s three visits to Caltech.

Caltech student group photo having just solved a puzzle

In the wee hours of Friday, May 26, the Einstein Papers Project was transformed into a Ditch Day activity site. How to Train Your Dragon was the inspirational source for the puzzle students needed to crack in our conference room. For a brief while our Hermann Landshoff portraits of Einstein were obscured by dragon wings and our library shelves bore mythical captioning rather than scientific or historical guidewords. We've returned to our usual working conditions. It was fun while it lasted! Read more about Ditch Day 2023, by clicking here.


At left: EPP conference room shelves and photos transformed. At right: puzzle decoding on the whiteboard

06-06-2023



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