March 14, 1879, marked the birth of one of the most celebrated men that humanity knows, Albert Einstein, whose legacy offered to science, managed to change the scientific bases established until then.
Huberto Rohden, a science scholar at Princeton University, during the years 1945-46, lived temporarily with Einstein, which resulted in a book about this genius of science, which reveals a little of the personality of the man Einstein, in “Einstein, the Enigma of the Universe”, first published in 1972.
However, not only men came up with this genius, women too, and a contemporary example of Einstein was Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, naturalized French, who carried out pioneering research on radioactivity.
Mileva Marić, Einstein's first wife, also a scientist, contributed a lot to her husband's success, correcting calculations, writings, offering ideas. Mileva was one of the first women to obtain enrollment and attend the prestigious Zurich Polytechnic (ETH).
However, there is still much to be written about Einstein, as they are in custody at the Hebrew University, in Israel, most of his letters not yet made public, which may reveal more about the man who sealed the destinies of twentieth-century science and perhaps, marking future generations with his analytical, but also intuitive and mystical thinking.
In March 2019, more information about Einstein's personal files was published.
Below is the account of these revelations:
“Even 140 years after Albert Einstein was born, his scientific discoveries still impact our lives. Lasers, nuclear power, fibre optics, driverless cars, GPS and space travel all hark back to Einstein's theories. Last week, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveiled 110 new handwritten pages by Einstein, most of which have not been shown before, releasing more information about the scientist and the man behind the science.
Einstein was one of the founders of the Hebrew University and bequeathed his personal and scientific writings to the University's archives. These archives contain over 80,000 items, including manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, diplomas, and medals.
The new manuscripts were purchased from a private collector in North Carolina by the Crown-Goodman Family Foundation in Chicago, which presented them to the University.
The new collection contains:
· 84 sheets, most of them, mathematical derivations between 1944-48.
· A manuscript and unpublished appendix of a scientific paper on the Unified Theory that Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1930, an appendix that was considered lost until now.
· A 1935 letter from Einstein to his son Hans Albert, who was living in Switzerland at the time. Einstein expresses concern about the deteriorating situation in Europe and the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany: “I read with some apprehension that there is a movement in Switzerland instigated by German bandits. But I believe that even in Germany, things are slowly starting to change. Let's just hope we don't have a war in Europe first... the rest of Europe is now starting to take it seriously, especially the British. If they had suppressed this movement more severely a year and a half ago, it would have been better and easier.”
· 4 letters from Einstein to his longtime friend and fellow scientist, Michele Besso. Three of the 1916 letters refer to Einstein's monumental work on atoms' absorption and emission of light. Later, this idea became the basis of laser technology. In the fourth letter, Einstein confesses that, after 50 years of reflection, he still doesn't understand the quantum nature of light.
After the preservation and digitization of these new documents, the University is working with Prof. Diana Kormos-Buchwald of the California Institute of Technology to decipher the scientific and mathematical contexts of many of the calculations in this new collection.”
And much more is yet to be revealed from this incredible personality.
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