From personal notes to his family to musings on world politics, the collection gives new insight into one of the …
Albert Einstein may be gone, but his scientific legacy certainly lives on. So too does his knowledge, thanks to the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which has just made Einstein's personal collection of notes
available to the public for the first time via the internet.
A full 80,000 items from Einstein's personal collection have been
archived and uploaded to the searchable database. The collection runs
the gamut from highly educational — it contains notes on his
theory of relativity
— to highly personal, such as correspondence to his sick mother. Many
of the items were donated to the Hebrew University by Einstein himself;
the rest were acquired after the fact.
While much about Einstein is already known, these papers do open up a
new window on his life. Notably, the collection contains a number of
political musings, discussing the treatment of Jewish Germans post-World
War I and his thoughts on
nuclear disarmament.
But it's not all serious: You also get to read some of Einstein's fan
mail, including a letter from a 6-year-old girl imploring, "you ought
to have your haircu
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