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The Digital Einstein Papers home page

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A collaboration between the American University of Princeton and the Israeli Hebrew University of Jerusalem allowed to put on line over 80,000 pages of documents written by Albert Einstein in the Digital Einstein project. The documents correspond to a set of paper books published in recent years by the Princeton University Press.

That’s not the only project that aims to make all the writings of the great scientist available. In recent years the University of Jerusalem created the “Einstein Archives Online”. Both projects are carried out with the collaboration of CalTech and include not only scientific papers but also letters and other personal writings.

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A little more than a year ago a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum allowed putting on line five Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has launched the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a new site that is home to about 5,000 images of fragments of those scrolls for a total of more than 900 manuscripts in a quality never seen before.

Official portrait of Albert Einstein after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced it has started a project that will put online more than eighty thousand documents relating to Albert Einstein on the already existing website Einstein Archives Online dedicated to the famous scientist.

The Psalms Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and its transcription

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Thanks to a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum, the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been put online in a section of the museum site specifically created. Initially, five scrolls have been put on-line but others are being digitized and the project plans to put online almost all those in possession of the museum by 2016.