More Einstein Info & Links

On this site:

• Einstein basic CHRONOLOGY and 1905 CHRONOLOGY
• BOOKS by & about Einstein
• Historical ESSAYS
• AUDIO: energy-mass equivalence, the fate of Europe's Jews, and nuclear weapons and peace.
• SITE CONTENTS
  
• En Español

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Other Sites:

• The Wikipedia Einstein article includes links to articles on science and other related topics
• Leiwen Hu's Einstein links has both useful stuff and odd stuff.
• The biggest set of links, Albert Einstein Online .

  Our selected links on biographical and historical topics and Einstein's science today (Exits from pages on this site)

• NOVA public TV's Einstein's Big Idea includes good explanations and much more.
• Einstein Online from the Deutsches Museum explains many relativity topics. Also in German
• EinsteinLight gives a multimedia (flash) explanation of special relativity theory.
• The American Museum of Natural History's Einstein exhibit has still more on some topics plus
  Way to Go, Einstein! for kids.
• The Einstein Archives (Jerusalem) offers Einstein for Kids plus a timeline and other resources
• The History of Mathematics Archives gives A short Einstein biography with links to biographies of colleagues and forerunners, and brief descriptions of his theories.
• Time magazine's eloquent Person of the Century biography.
• A set of links to resources for Einstein's 1905 Annus Mirabilis from Johns Hopkins University
• From Cambridge scientists, Relativity and Cosmology.
• Einstein's Legacy in science, from the University of Illinois.
• Caltech's Einstein Papers Project is publishing everything he wrote.
• Our main links page has choice sites on 20th century physics history, including nuclear history.
• The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues has many annotated references and links, including these items involving Einstein.
• Colleagues: Web exhibits on Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Marie Curie and Werner Heisenberg.

Einstein's words:

• Einstein's Writings on Science and Religion from St. Cloud University.
• A brief essay, Why Socialism? by Einstein.
• An attempt at a popular explanation of The History of Field Theory.
• Einstein manuscripts on various topics in the Einstein Archives (more to come).
• Einstein's papers in Annalen der Physik (PDFs in German ) and other information
• English translations of some key 1905 papers (links to PDFs)
  
  NOTE: not all quotes are genuine; check in a book like "The Expanded Quotable Einstein"
• A set from the Quotations Page
• Trubin's Quotes & Jokes for kids
• Kevin Harris's set of Brief Einstein Quotes
• Another set of Selected Einstein Quotes from Mountain Man Graphics

Pictures:

• The AIP's Emilio Segr� Visual Archives has over 100 Einstein photos for sale at cost.
• You can also buy copies of the Einstein Photos at Caltech Archives.
• The University of Frankfurt's substantial set of Albert Einstein Pictures.

Miscellaneous:

• Biography and institutions:
  a short biography of Niels Bohr (Univ. of Sunderland); a Leo Szilard page by Gene Dannen; a Galileo homepage (Rice University); current pages on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Federation of American Scientists.
• Historical topics:
  short histories of quantum theory, of the special relativity theory, and the general relativity theory from the University of St. Andrews; the Michelson-Morley experiment; Einstein's article, "What is the Theory of Relativity?" (manuscript and PDF text); a history of the laser by John Talbot; a history of the Nazi persecution of Jews from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; letters to Roosevelt, the FBI file on Einstein.
• Einstein's science today:
  – Relativity: Einstein Light presenting special relativity, A. Dogfrey's "Dummies Guide to Special Relativity;" a Guide to Einstein and General Relativity (NCSA); studies of a gravitational lens and a black hole in the M87 galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope; a page of cosmology links by J. Troeger; information on current tests of general relativity by Stanford University.
  – Atoms & quanta: atoms in a crystal seen with the scanning tunneling microscope; the particle adventure from CERN and a look at high-energy physics from FermiLab; intro to quantum mechanics (Todd Stedl); an overview of string theory (NOVA); an "official" string theory site; a page on quantum gravity today (Cambridge University).

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