Coming September 30th, 2026
Einstein Portal: A Database of Albert Einstein's Collected Works
Database Contents
The Einstein Portal will launch with the following:
Primary Literature
The first 16 volumes of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, including:
- Personal correspondence including letters to Mileva Marić
- Published works and essays
- Original editorial material and analysis
- Complete scholarly annotations
Secondary Literature
Curated collection of Princeton University Press publications on Einstein and relativity:
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – 100th Anniversary Edition
ISBN 9780691193588
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics
ISBN 9781400818211
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings
ISBN 9780691272184
The Meaning of Relativity: PSL Edition
ISBN 9780691164083
Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity
ISBN 9780691169897
The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity"
Featuring the Original Manuscripts of Einstein's Masterpiece
ISBN 9781400865765
The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again
ISBN 9781400884193
The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures
ISBN 9781400888689
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
ISBN 9780691190051
Authoritative, exclusive scholarly value:
The database is built on the long-running editorial work of the Einstein Papers Project and Princeton University Press, making it a trusted, rigorously curated resource.
Collection-building value:
As an ongoing database with material to come through Einstein’s death in 1955, the Einstein Portal is a living scholarly resource that grows rather than a static archive.
Deep primary-source coverage at scale:
The project encompasses tens of thousands of documents across Einstein’s scientific writings, correspondence, lectures, interviews, notebooks, and public statements, supporting advanced primary-source research.
Designed for discovery and teaching:
Fully searchable digital access makes the database especially useful for source-based teaching and research instruction in archives, primary sources, and scientific history.
Sample Database Entries by Category
Correspondence
Vol 1, Entry 94: To Mileva Marić (1901)
One of the love letters to his first wife, including discussions of scientific materials that led to later breakthroughs
Vol 5, Entry 404: To Paul Ehrenfest
Scientific correspondence on theoretical physics
Published Works and Essays
Vol 6, Entry 20: "My Opinion of the War"
An interesting opinion piece by Einstein on contemporary events
Vol 7, Entry 4: "On the Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity"
A published piece and critical document in the development of relativity theory
Original Editorial Material
Vol 7: "Einstein and the Jewish Question"
An essay by the editorial team, shown as an example of original editorial material
