Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:09:31 +0530
From: Krishnan
EXHIBIT: The Man Who Bent Space
The formula E = mc2 ushered in the nuclear age by revealing that matter
and energy are equivalent. You can see the famed equation written in
Einstein's own hand at the newly launched Einstein Archives Online.
Browse digitized images of more than 900 manuscripts, unpublished
articles, lecture notebooks, and travel diaries.
Einstein's scribbled corrections appear on many of the documents,
including in 1916 his first methodical explanation of the general theory
of relativity, which describes how matter distorts space and time. In
addition, the archive provides 39 papers in the original German with
historical and scientific annotations--22 of the papers also have English
translations. Along with scientific treatises in which Einstein attempts
to bring together all known physical forces under a unified field theory,
you can also find his papers on international unity and pacifism. Partly
because of as-yet-unresolved copyright issues, the cooperative effort
between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute
of Technology did not include any of Einstein's thousands of personal
letters, but his correspondence with Freud, Stalin, and Gandhi might
appear online in the future.
alberteinstein.info
Dr. S. Krishnan
Head, Information Division
National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA
e-mail: krish@ems.ncl.res.in
http://www.ncl-india.org
