Einstein Papers Project

Einstein Papers Project in Pasadena, California.

The Einstein Papers Project was established in 1986 to assemble, preserve, translate, and publish 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 located at Boston University until 2000. The project is also supported by endowments from individuals and universities, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Project is now located in Pasadena, California at the California Institute of Technology, which Einstein first visited in 1930.

On 5 December 2014, the related universities and archives announced the release of documents of Albert Einstein, available online at Digital Einstein.[1]

Albert Einstein.
The Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

In 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.

Introductions, headnotes, footnotes, etc., are provided in English, while 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.

The early years: 1879-1902

Volume 1 - Collected Papers 1879-1902

Includes many previously unpublished documents, e.g. class notes for Heinrich Friedrich Weber's lectures on thermodynamics and electromagnetism during Einstein's second year at ETH Zurich, etc.

Editors: John Stachel et al.   ISBN 0-691-08407-6, 1987.

The Swiss years: 1900-1914

Volume 2 - Writings 1900-1909

Includes Einstein's first (1900) published paper after his graduation from ETH Zurich, the Annus Mirabilis Papers, text of his invited lecture after his first academic appointment to the University of Zurich, etc.

Editors: John Stachel et al.   ISBN 0-691-08526-9, 1989.

Volume 3 - Writings 1909-1911

Includes Einstein's report to the first Solvay Conference, his appointment to the Charles University in Prague, his paper calculating gravitational bending of light, previously unpublished lecture notes, etc.

Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-08772-5, 1993.

Volume 4 - Writings 1912-1914

Includes a previously unpublished manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics, a notebook documenting his preparation for his first joint paper (1913, with Marcel Grossmann), previously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

Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-03705-1, 1995.

Volume 5 - Correspondence 1902-1914

Includes more than five hundred previously unpublished letters to and from Einstein in his early adulthood, from his first employment at the Swiss patent office in 1902 through his appointment to the Prussian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

Editors: Martin J. Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-03322-6, 1993.

The Berlin years: 1914-1920

Volume 6 - Writings 1914-1917

Includes papers describing Einstein's only experimental physics investigation, a study of André-Marie Ampère's molecular current theory of electromagnetism with Wander Johannes de Haas; etc.

Editors: A. J. Kox et al.   ISBN 0-691-01086-2, 1996.

Volume 7 - Writings 1918-1921

Editors: Michel Janssen et al.   ISBN 0-691-05717-6, 2002.

Volume 8 - Correspondence 1914-1918

Editors: R. Schulmann et al.   In two volumes. ISBN 0-691-04849-5, 1997.

Volume 9 - Correspondence January 1919-April 1920

Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 0-691-12088-9, 2004.

Volume 10 - Correspondence May–December 1920, Supplementary Correspondence 1909-1920

Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 0-691-12825-1, 2006.

Volume 11 - Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1 - 10

Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 97806911418791, 2009.

Volume 12 - The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January - December 1921

Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 9780691141909, 2009.

Volume 13 - The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, January 1922 - March 1923

Editors: Diana Kormos Buchwald et al.   ISBN 9780691156743, 2012.

Trustees

The trustees of Einstein's literary estate were:

Dear Professor Einstein

The project Dear Professor Einstein, a scientific research, created by researchers at Oregon State University (OSU), which are seeking help with the transcription of thousands of documents, letters and records kept by the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. The OSU’s Special Collections & Archives Research Center seeks help from citizen scientists to transcribe the letters in the collection, which is part of an online exhibit. The exhibit includes documents and letters to and from the nine scientists making up the committee, including appeals for donations to support the group’s mission of peace.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Overbye, Dennis (4 December 2014). "Thousands of Einstein Documents Are Now a Click Away". New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Volume 1.
  3. ↑ Volume 2.
  4. ↑ Volume 3.
  5. ↑ Volume 4.
  6. ↑ Volume 5.
  7. ↑ Volume 6.
  8. ↑ Volume 7.
  9. ↑ Volume 8.
  10. ↑ Volume 9.
  11. ↑ Volume 10.
  12. ↑ Volume 11.
  13. ↑ Volume 12.
  14. ↑ Volume 13.
  15. ↑ About the Project
  16. ↑ Dear Professor Einstein published by The Scientific American

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