Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and most recognized physicists of the 20th century and one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. His insights have had profound influence on the fundamentals of physics and the way we look at the universe and the nature of space and time. He revolutionized our views of space and time, matter and light, gravitation and the universe as a whole.
Not alone his Special and General Theory of Relativity profoundly affected our conception of the world and laid the foundations for many of the scientific advances of the twentieth century. In a single year of his 20s, Albert Einstein published papers explaining the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, Special Relativity and E=mc². In his 30s, he came up with the theory of General Relativity. In his early 40s, he won a Nobel Prize. As physicist Sean Carroll put it:
If any scientist in recent memory deserves to have every one of their words captured and distributed widely, it’s Albert Einstein.
Everybody can read through more than 5000 of Einstein’s original Papers and documents from his first 44 years.
On 5th of December 2014, the Princeton University Press, in partnership with the digital publishing platform Tizra, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the California Institute of Technology, had announced the launch of THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS, a free and publicly accessible “website of the collected and translated papers of Albert Einstein that allows readers to explore the writings of the world’s most famous scientist as never before.” (See also here and here)
The Digital Einstein Papers is an open-access site for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the ongoing publication of Einstein's massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique documents.
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS website presents the complete contents of all 13 of the 14 volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, published to date by the editors of the Einstein Papers Project, in Einstein's original language German and translated into English.
The website contains 5,000 documents covering the first forty-four years of Einstein’s life, up to and including the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics and his long voyage to the Far East, covering the writings and correspondence of Einstein (1879−1955) from his youth to 1923.
Additional material and volumes will be available on the website approximately two years after each new volume is published. The 14th print volume, covering the period from April 1923 through May 1925 and including Einstein's trip to South America, was published in 2015.
Eventually, the website will provide access to all of Einstein’s writings and correspondence, accompanied by scholarly annotation and apparatus.
“The Einstein Papers Project is engaged in one of the most ambitious scholarly publishing ventures undertaken in the history of science. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein provides the first complete picture of Einstein’s massive written legacy.”