Mon 24 October 2022:
The Israeli government decided on Sunday to house the largest collection of Albert Einstein documents in a museum, according to the Hebrew University.
The government will contribute about $6 million, and the university will contribute an additional $12 million, for construction to take place on the university’s Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem.
Einstein served as a non-resident governor of the Hebrew University and was one of its founders.
Einstein, who was hailed as one of history’s greatest theoretical physicists, passed away in 1955 at the age of 76.
He bequeathed his archives to the university, and curator Roni Grosz said its 85,000 items make it the world’s most extensive collection of Einstein documents.
The museum will house the entire Einstein archive, and serve as an “innovative space for scientific and technological education,” the university said.
“With cutting-edge exhibition techniques, scientific demonstrations, and original documents, the Museum will present Einstein’s contributions to science, the impact of his discoveries on our lives today, his public activity and involvement in key historical moments during his lifetime,” a statement said.
Einstein’s theories of relativity transformed the field by introducing new perspectives on the movement of objects in space and time.
He also made significant contributions to quantum mechanics theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Einstein’s dry witticisms and trademark unruly hair, moustache, and bushy eyebrows helped him become a pop culture icon.
Original Einstein papers still fetch millions of dollars at auction.
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