The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is one of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the documentation of the history of science.

The Collected Papers provides the first complete picture of a massive written legacy that ranges from Einstein's first work on the special and general theories of relativity and the origins of quantum theory to his active involvement with international collaboration and cooperation, human rights, education, and disarmament.

The published volumes draw upon more than 40,000 documents contained in the personal papers of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), and more than 30,000 additional Einstein and Einstein-related documents discovered by the editors since the 1980s.

The printed series will contain over 14,000 scientific and non-scientific documents, and will fill close to 30 volumes.

Sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Princeton University Press, the Einstein project was located at and supported by Boston University from 1986 to 2000.

Currently located at and supported by The California Institute of Technology, the project will continue to make available a monumental collection of primary material.

About The Series

The Volumes present Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific writings, as well as his professional and private correspondence in chronological order.

They include all of Einstein's published and unpublished writings, such as articles, lecture and research notebooks, book reviews, patent applications, and available accounts of his lectures, speeches, interviews, and other oral statements, as well as a wide selection of letters written by and to Einstein, with references to significant documents about him written by third parties.

The volumes also contain calendars of Einstein's life. Every available document by or to Einstein appears as full-text or in abstract.

Every document in The Collected Papers appears in the language in which it was written, while the introduction, headnotes, footnotes, and other scholarly apparatus are in English. Each volume is extensively indexed, and contains an exhaustive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Upon release of each volume, Princeton University Press also publishes an English translation of previously untranslated non-English documents.