More than 5,000 of legendary scientist Albert Einstein's letters and notes are now online and searchable through an
Internet database unveiled on Friday.
The digital trove reveals a man who was not only brilliant but who also enjoyed everyday life as well.
Clicking on the identifier numbers below each text allow readers to access archival record of each published document at the
Einstein Archives Online.
The documents include letters, diaries, clinical reports and documents written through 1923, when he was 44 years old, reports
CTA News.
The project is being edited by a lecturer from the California Institute of Technology, and 13 volumes out of an expected 30 volumes have gone online. Most of the documents were translated into English, and show a man who enjoyed drinking beer in bars as much as he did debating scientific theory.
In one of the documents, a 1915 postcard to a friend, Conrad Habicht, Einstein describes himself and his wife as being "dead drunk under the table." Diana Kormos-Buchwald, who directed the project, said that the postcard shows the "regular" Einstein.
The papers available so far cover the years 1879 to 1923, considered the most important period of modern-day scientific study, as there were only 1,000 physicists in the world at that time.
Einstein's letters include communications to other scientists, including Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Niels Bohr.
The
Digital Einstein archive is published by Princeton University Press in conjunction with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the California Institute of Technology, and the publishing platform Tizra. Its search technology allows users to navigate the Einstein papers not only in English, along with their own languages.
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