Albert Einstein (1879–1955), one of the foremost scientists and public figures of the 20th century, revolutionized our views of time and space, matter and light, gravitation and the universe.
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Albert Einstein with his assistant Walther Mayer in Pasadena, early 1931.
The density of the Milky Way, Pasadena, January 1931.
Einstein speaking at the dedication of the Pasadena Junior College (now PCC) astronomy building, February 1931.
One of few existing color photos of Einstein; on the porch of his house in Princeton, February 1954.
Albert and Elsa Einstein with Robert and Greta Millikan on a boat off Long Beach, 1931.
In front of the Athenaeum Faculy Club, Caltech, 1932.
With young people, at dedication of the Pasadena Junior College (now PCC) astronomy building, February 1931.
With Charles St. John and Walther Mayer on top of the solar tower telescope, Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1931.
Three Nobel Prize winners, front row: A. A. Michelson, Albert Einstein, Robert A. Millikan. Back row: Walter S. Adams, Walther Mayer, Max Ferrrand. In front of the Athenaeum, Caltech, 1931.
Albert and Elsa Einstein receiving California Governor James Rolph, Jr. and reporters in front of their rented house in Pasadena, early 1931.
Albert Einstein with Charles St. John at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, 1931.
Looking iinto the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory, with Edwin Hubble and Walter Adams, January 1931.
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Press Release:
24 September 2012
New Volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein captures his journey to the Far East while dealing with the consequences of celebrity in turbulent political times
Volume 13: The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, January 1922—March 1923, Documentary Edition
Edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald, József Illy, Ze'ev Rosenkranz, & Tilman Sauer
Princeton University Press, the Einstein Papers Project at California Institute of Technology, and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are pleased to be publishing the latest volume in the massively authoritative Einstein Papers Project THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN: Volume 13: The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, January 1922—March 23, Documentary Edition on September 25, 2012.
When in the fall of 1922 it was announced that Albert Einstein had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, after more than a decade of nominations, Einstein was on a steamer headed for Japan. Although he was unofficially made aware of the upcoming award, he decided to leave Berlin, and makes no mention of the award in his detailed and poetic Travel Diary of his trip to the Far East, Palestine, and Spain, published here in its entirety for the first time. Together with a correspondence of 1,000 letters—most of which were never published before—with numerous colleagues, friends, and family members, the volume presents a rich trove of documents, central to understanding this period in Einstein’s life and work, heavily marked by the assassination of Germany’s foreign minister, his friend Walther Rathenau. As Einstein himself professed, the trip was an escape from the tense atmosphere in Berlin and rumored threats against his own life, as well as the fulfillment of his long-held desire to visit Japan. 9-24-12
