Einstein's complete archives to go online

Sapa-AP 25 March 2012

Albert Einstein's complete archives – from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundbreaking scientific research – are going online for the first time, writes Daniel Estrin for Sapa-AP.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the German Jewish physicist's papers, is pulling never-before seen items from its climate-controlled safe, photographing them in high resolution and posting them on the internet – offering the public a nuanced and fuller portrait of the man behind the scientific genius.

More than 900 manuscript images, and an incomplete catalogue listing just half of the archive's contents, had been posted online since 2003. Now, with a grant from the Polonsky Foundation UK, which previously helped digitise Isaac Newton's papers, all 80,000 items from the Einstein collection have been catalogued and enhanced with cross referencing technology.
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