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Einstein Papers: a 20-Year Project Director's Office: Faculty Files: Box 11a: Einstein, Albert-Miscellaneous Press Clippings From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THB NBW YORK TIMBS, SUNDAY, MARCH 14,1982 Einstein Papers: A 20-Year Project Elnstelo formally retired from the ByS.J.HORNER Institute in 1945. However, he r& malned there, continuing his search, PRINCETON begun In the 20's, for a "unified field EW light will be shed on theory" that would explain gravita­ major scientific and politi. tion, electromagnetics and subatomJC cal topics of the 20th cen· phenomena in one setof laws. tury - including the quan- The years at Princetoo- what MIss tumNtheory, pacifism, Zionism, aca· Dukas and Dr. Hoffmann called "the demic freedom and nuclear disarma· final phase" -wereneverautumnal. ment-when Albert Einstein's papers "In the mld-JO's, at the be1gbt of the are puhlished, according to Herbert S. Depression." Dr. sache1 notes, Em. Bailey Jr. of Griggstown, director of stein encouraged a "cooperative h<Jus.. the Princeton University Press. lng, farming and industrial settlement Mr. Bailey called the pub1isblng in Hightstown that was set up by a project, conceived in 1971, "the great· group of New York garmentworkers." est ofits itind in this century." Its goal . "In 1939, many of us were very COl).. is to bring out 20 or more volumes of cemed that Hltler's idea to conquer Einstein's published and unpublished the whole globe might come true," Dr. writlogs: notebooks, diaries, COrTe­ Eugene P. Wigner of PrInceton, then a spoodence, documents and memora· professor of theoretical physics at the bllia. university, recalled, "and we told Ein­ Einstein, born 103 years ago today in steinof our apprehensions. Ulm, Germany, was 76 when he died in "Although Einstein's theory of spe­ Princetooon ApriI18,1955. cial relativity had led to the discovery lbe world-acclaimed physicist ar· of the atomic bomh - he was not In­ rived in Princetonon Oct. 17,1933, a 54­ volved In its development, only c0n­ year-old relugee from Nazi Germany. cerned that Germany might develop it For the next 22 years, he lived at 112 first - his letter of Aprtl 2, 1939, to Mercer Street and worked at the Instl· President Roosevelt stressed the need tute for Advanced Physics, becoming for work in thatfleld.,. a fanol1iar figure on Princeton's [n 1947, two years after Hlroshlma, streets. Raymond Graham Swing, the news "Unfortunately, a cloud of myths commentator. broadcast an interview bas distoned Einstein's personality.'· with Einstein during which the sci.... said Dr. John Stachel, a physicist, hls­ Albert Einstein at 70 tist warned that "a world government torian o[ scienee and editor of the Ein· with powers to guarantee security" stein papers. "He was not only a crea· was "an immediate necessity.,. tlve genius who revolutionized theoret. tionized previous concepts of the unJ· The physicist arrived In PrInceton In In mld-Fehruary of 1950, or aboot lcal physics; he was a social thinker verse with his theories of relativity Oetober 1933 with his second wife, two weeks after President Harry S. with Important views on Issuesaucial (1905 and 1916), had received a re- Elsa. Truman ordered the manufacture of to the fate of humanity." search professorship at the KaIser Wli· "Einstein's arrival as permanent thehydrogen bomh, Elnstelo, in a tele­ According to Dr. Stacbel, the aim of helm Institute in Berlin (1914) and had faculty gave the institute its identity," vised program conducted by Eleanor the publlsblng project, which wIli in- woo the Nobel Prize for his discovery said Dr. Harry Woolf of Princeton, Ita Roosevelt, worried about "unJversai c1ude third-party materia1s about EIn- of the photoelectric effect (1921). director since 1976. "Hecreated a field annihilation" and stated: stelo,ls to "document his thoughts and "But the Nazis could not bear to see of attraction that brought in other dis­ "In the last analysis, the peaceful activities as they emerge from his a Jew thus honored, especlal1y ane tlngulsbed Europeans who recognI.zed coexistence of people Is primarUy de­ writlogs and correspondence." who, hy his whole ute style, shone that, with Elnstelo's presence, this pendent upon mutual trust. tt Three volumes are expected to ap. forth as a symbol of all that they would Dot bea mlnoror lesserplace.u The responses that Elnstelo r& pear in the next five years; the entire sought to destroy," the biographers But in December 1933, as letters In celved after these and later political projectIs expected to take 20 years. wrote, and In the early 1930's the name the Einstelo lUes indicate, the scien­ statementa - copies are In the flies of Ownership of 43,000 Items In the ar- oflbestreet was cbanged.• tist was nffering to resign from the in­ the Elnstelo papers - articulate the cbIvai papers recently passed to He- In1927, Einstelo was invited to teach stitute because of Dr. Flexner's inter­ anxieties of those decades. brew University In Israel, Dr. Stachel at Princeton and declined. But In 1932 ference In his affairs. In the Seeley G. Mudd Uhrary at disclosed. Duplicates were made and - "foreseeing where Germany was One month after the Einstelns' ar­ Princeton, newspaper cIIpp1nga about eachItem was flied and labeled. headed," the authors wrote - he rived, Dr. FlexIler, who disliked pUb­ Einstein often describe bow the scien­ "A single most Important re- agreed to spend part of each year at IIdty, sent a letter to Mrs. Elnstelo In tist's neighbors In Princeton grew ac­ source," Dr. Stachel said, was lost the tben-new Institute for Advanced which he objected to her husband's customed to his Informal dress - "old with the death last month of Helen Study, which was conceived and dI- granting an interview to lbe Newark sweaters, open shirts, wool caps, long Dukas, who had been Elnstelo's per. rected hy Abraham Flexner, the Ledger (predecessor oflbeStar-Ledg. ba!r" - and to his "faith In human sona! secretary since 1928 and who educator. er) and to Einstelo's participation In a reason." lived In the house on MercerStreet. Funds for the post-doctorallnstltute concert (be played the violin) to raise At The Country Mouse on Nassau After Einstein's death, Miss Dukas - a grant of S5 million In 1930 - had money for refugees. Street, Cyndy Bittinger of Rocky HIli, was archivist and co-trustee of his been provided by Louis Bamberger Also in early November, the letters co-owner nf the store with her hus­ papers, along with Dr. Otto Nathan, andhlsslster,Mrs. Felix Fuld of South Indicate, Dr. Flexner refused an invl· band, William, explained why she Einstein's longtime associate. Orange, then the owners of Bamber- tatlon to the WhIte House that had thought people bought Elnstelo post· A hiography that she wrote with Dr. ger's, the Newarkdepartmentstore. been tendered to the Elnstelns. In a ersand postcanls. Banesh Hoffmann, a theoretical physi- "When Hitler came to power," the letter from Dr. Einstein to Mrs. Roose­ "So many heroes have been de­ cist, traces the emergence of EIn- biographers wrote of JanGary 1933, velt, written later that month, he iJ1.. stroyed:' she said, Hand Einstein, as stein's genius. [n the early 1920's, the Einstein - then in Pasadena, Calif. ­ formed her that he never received the far as [know- I'm In my 30's-isstili co-authors wrote, "a street In Ulm had "realized at once that he could not go invitation and regretted not meeting someone people look up to," • been named Elnstelnstrasse In his back to Germany. He pUhllcly an· the President. honor," DOunced his decision not to return in had I March 1933," =B=y=tha=t=tlm=e,=E=Ins=telo==rev=O=u-=_========L Rl ~~ lv~r1()r n1cn~lc Director's Office: Faculty Files: Box 11a: Einstein, Albert-Miscellaneous Press Clippings From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA THE NBW YORK TIMBS, FRIDAY, SBPTBMBBR 17,, i982 e21 Publishing: $1 Million for Einstein 'Pap,ers a ves, a treasure trove , By EDWIN McDOWELL con 5,000 pages of published and unpu IIshed manuscrlpts, 3,000 11 mUlion donation from Har· pages of llOteboob and travel diaries old W. McGraw Jr., cbalr· and 52,000 pages of correspondence' =more than half of Which deal with ~ man of McGraw·HIII Inc., bas breathed fresh life 1010 scientific matters. 11 The book explains EInstein's out. the project to publish Alben EIn­ stein's papers In 20 volumes. Prlo"'" spollen advocacy of paclflam, his bo- . ton Uolverslty Press hopes 10 send the lief that the creation of a world lov• .first volume to the prloter by the eod emment wu the only salvati""for the of 1983, but the entire publlshl.ni Ibuman race and his love of music project will take years. especially Schubert, Mozart, Bach MeaowhUe, Prloceton recently pub­ , and Vivaldi. And It debunlts the myth lished "Alben Einstein: Historical that the man whose oame would later and Cultural Perspectives," edited by be aynooymous with geolus did poorlY' GersId Hollon and Yehuda EIItana, a In school. In fact, said the author ~:. volume based on papers delivered at ,receIved hlp marks In latin, O':",k the Einstein centennial symposIum in and mathematlco. Jerusalem 10 Mardi IlI7\l. And next Einstein wu a..arded the No~ Thl\rBday, Oxford University Press Prize for physico 10 1921, and over the will pUl!lIsh "Subtle Is the Lord: The years h. endorsed a variety of Science snd.the Ule 01 Alben EIo­ &cholars and statesmen for the vari. stelo" by Abraham Pais, based 00 ous Nobel categories.
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