Einstein Papers Project

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The Einstein Papers Project, established in 1986, is dedicated to assembling, preserving, translating and publishing papers selected from the literary estate of Albert Einstein (more than forty thousand documents) and from other collections (more than fifteen thousand Einstein-related documents).

Sponsored by the Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since its inception, the Project was first located at Boston University from 1986 to 2000.

The Project, also supported by endowments from individuals, universities and foundations such as the National Science Foundation, is now at the California Institute of Technology, which Einstein first visited in 1932, in Pasadena, California.

Contents

[edit] The Series

During the first two decades of the Einstein Papers Project, the Princeton University Press has published ten of the projected twenty five volumes in the series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

While introductions, headnotes, footnotes, etc., are provided in English, all documents in the series are reproduced in the language in which they were originally written. The Press simultaneously publishes English translations of previously untranslated documents when it releases each volume in the series.

  • Volume 1 in the series is followed by two parallel and extensively cross-referenced branches for the time periods 1900-1914 (the Swiss years) and 1914-1920 (the Berlin years):
    • The Writings:  Unpublished and previously published articles; lecture notes; research notes; accounts of his lectures; speeches; interviews; book reviews; etc.
    • The Correspondence:  Letters to and from Einstein; documents about him by third parties; calendars; travel diaries; etc.

[edit] The Early Years: 1879-1902

[edit] V. 1: Collected Papers, 1879-1902

(Includes many previously unpublished documents, e.g. Einstein's class notes for Heinrich Friedrich Weber's lectures on thermodynamics and electromagnetism during his second year at ETH Zurich; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1, The Early Years: 1879-1902.
Editors: John Stachel et al.   ISBN 0-691-08407-6, 1987.

[edit] The Swiss Years: 1900-1914

[edit] V. 2: Writings, 1900-1909

(Includes first paper published (1900) after graduation from ETH Zurich; the 1905 Annus Mirabilis Papers; text of invited lecture delivered after first academic appointment to the University of Zurich; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909.
Editors: John Stachel et al.   ISBN 0-691-08526-9, 1989.
(Introduction to Volume 2.)

[edit] V. 3: Writings, 1909-1911

(Includes report to first Solvay Conference; appointment to German University in Prague; June 1911 paper calculating gravitational bending of light; previously unpublished lecture notes; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1911.
Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-08772-5, [[1993].
(Introduction to Volume 3.)

[edit] V. 4: Writings, 1912-1914

(Includes previously unpublished manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics; notebook documenting preparation for first joint paper (1913) with Marcel Grossmann; previously unknown calculations with Michele Besso on the motion of the perihelion of Mercury; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 4, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914.
Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-03705-1, 1995.
(Introduction to Volume 4.)

[edit] V. 5: Correspondence, 1902-1914

(Includes more than five hundred previously unpublished letters to and from Einstein in early adulthood, from first employment at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902 through 1914 appointment to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Correspondents included Max von Laue, Paul Ehrenfest, Alfred Kleiner, Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5, The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914.
Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-03322-6, 1993.
(Introduction to Volume 5.)

[edit] The Berlin Years: 1914-1920

[edit] V. 6: Writings, 1914-1917

(Includes papers describing Einstein's only experimental investigation, a study of Ampère's molecular current theory of electromagnetism with the Dutch physicist W. J. de Haas; etc.)

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 6, The Berlin Years: Writings, 1914-1917.
Editors: A. J. Kox et al.   ISBN 0-691-01086-2, 1996.
(Introduction to Volume 6.)

[edit] V. 7: Writings, 1918-1921

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7, The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921.
Editors: Michel Janssen et al.   ISBN 0-691-05717-6, 2002.

[edit] V. 8: Correspondence, 1914-1918

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 8, The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914-1918.
Editors: R. Schulmann et al.   In two volumes. ISBN 0-691-04849-5, 1997.

[edit] V. 9: Correspondence, January 1919-April 1920

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 9, The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919 - April 1920.
Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 0-691-12088-9, 2004.

[edit] V. 10: Correspondence, May-December 1920; Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 10, The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920.
Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 0-691-12825-1, 2006.
(Introduction to Volume 10.)

[edit] Trustees

The trustees of Einstein's literary estate were:

[edit] External links

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