Latest Einstein Papers Project Stories

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A handwritten letter by one Albert Einstein will be auctioned off this month with an opening bid of $3 million. This piece of history won’t be found at Sotheby’s auction house, however. This pricey, handwritten note will hit the online auction block at eBay. The letter, called the “God Letter,” was penned by Einstein just one year before his passing and shows the Austrian genius challenging the notion of God, religion...

In honor of Albert Einstein’s 133rd birthday, Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem launched his archives on an expanded Einstein  Archives Online website. The site carries more than 80,000 of his documents including personal papers. The papers are being pulled from a climate-controlled safe and photographed with high resolution cameras. This new project is being funded with a grant by the Polonsky Foundation UK, who digitized Isaac Newton’s collection. ’The items in...