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"Ever wanted to get into Albert Einstein's head? Well, now you can, sort of. The science legend's complete archives \u2014 more than 80,000 of them \u2014 are now available online for the first time ever at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With the repository's interactive features, people can now learn about Einstein in greater detail than ever before.\nThis online gallery highlighting The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein \u2014 as the project is called \u2014 divides Einstein's life into five different cornerstones: His work as co-founder of the Hebrew University, science, his personal life, public life and his relationship to the Jewish people. Users can navigate digital carousals within the categories to inspect the different items associated with them. In the personal life section, for example, you can view his high school certificate, marriage announcement, a postcard he wrote to his mother, his honorary Doctorate of Science from Princeton University, a travel diary he kept while in the U.S. and his 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. You can zoom in to each of these items and glean more context about them with summaries that the Hebrew U. has provided.\nAccording to Dalia Mendelsson, the project manager for the online repository, the interactivity is at the heart of project. \"In this way the content of the archives can be explored via a new user-friendly interface customized for this goal,\u201D she said in an online statement. \u201CThis interface provides easy navigation through the life and scientific career of Albert Einstein.\"\nNot only do the various artifacts from Einstein's life reveal more about his different activities, but because of the level of detail that the online gallery provides \u2014 particularly the zooming functionalities \u2014 users can feel like they are getting to know his personality as well, albeit posthumously. The messy cursive and line cross-outs surrounding his paradigm-shifting formula E = MC^2, for example, give users a deeper understanding of Einstein's thought process.\n\nMeanwhile, contrary to popular belief, his grade certificate shows that Einstein was actually a successful student, with his lowest score (in French) rated \"3\" out of a possible \"6.\" And that was his only \"average\" score.\nThe searchable  archival database itself \u2014 which contains the bulk of the project's content \u2014 is a bit harder to navigate for a layperson; it's not as visually stimulating as the gallery. But, for someone who knows what he or she is looking for, the searching options, as well as limits to those searches, are a dream come true. Just searching for the term \"postcard\" reveals ways of sorting results by author, language, organization or date.\n\nThe Hebrew U. and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), started digitizing Einstein's archives several years ago and released its first website of Einstein's digital records in 2003. The updated project, which was launched March 14, nearly doubled the number of materials online. The date coincided with what would have been Einstein's 133rd birthday. In Israel, the day is also observed as National Science Day.\nWhat do you think of the updated Einstein archives? Do you plan on perusing the gallery or searching through the databases? Let us know in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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