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Thousands of Einstein documents are available online for free

Thousands of Einstein documents are available online for free Princeton University in the US has launched the Digital Einstein Papers project - an open-access site that will deliver the extensive written legacy of Albert Einstein to the public. The New York Times calls them "the Dead Sea Scrolls of physics”, and they’re on their way to being publicly available - the 80,000 documents left behind by Albert Einstein. When he died in 1955, Einstein bequeathed the copyright of his writings and correspondence to Princeton University Press and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Over the past three decades these institutions have been analysing and publishing the texts - which span from the years of Einstein's youth to 1923 - and just last week announced that they would now be distributing them for free. "Starting on Friday, when Digital Einstein is introduced, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to share in the letters, papers, postcards, notebooks and