Einstein goes online
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) partnered to create this new “online repository of 2,000 high-resolution scans from their collected manuscripts of Albert Einstein” which you can browse here. Einstein had a connection with Caltech, having spent time with their researchers over the course of three consecutive winter semesters in the 1930s. His visits out West were chronicled in his one of six travel diaries he maintained. The gem of the collection, in my opinion, is the page (pictured above) from a 1946 paper for Science Illustrated. The seminal formula seen “is [only] one of three existing examples in Einstein’s own handwriting.” Go ahead and browse through the archive as a reminder of how little you’ve accomplished.
On a poignant note, if you haven’t seen it before, check out this photograph taken by Ralph Morse of Albert Einstein’s office at Princeton just a few hours after the scientist passed away on April 18, 1955.
