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Volume 17 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is out in the world. We've gotten reports from India & Israel that colleagues have received their complimentary copies. We're proud of our achievement and happy to continue our long partnership with @PrincetonUPress.

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Einstein Papers Project Editor, Josh Eisenthal, reflects on Einstein’s second meeting with Rabindranath Tagore which is documented in the forthcoming Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17. hubs.ly/Q02W-Rc80 #AlbertEinstein

We know the excitement of unboxing a new set of books. It's even more thrilling to send them out to our collaborators and the institutions and archives we rely on. Thank you!

Read Josh's talk abstract here: hss.caltech.edu/news-and-event… The pull quote can be contextualized in our Digital Einstein Papers. Connect here: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol6-trans/318 (English) einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol6-doc/489 (German)

EPP Science Editor @josheisenthal talks @Caltech today: "Back to the Problem of Space". He explores how figures who grappled with the “Problem of Space” in the 19th c., following the development of non-Euclidean geometries, were thinking spatially rather than spatiotemporally.

Here's a link to local coverage: esplugadefrancoli.cat/cent-anys-de-l…

100 years ago this week Einstein was in Spain. His visits to l'Espluga de Francolí and the Monastery of Poblet have been hosting remembrance celebrations. Read details here: Volume 13: The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence January 1922-March 1923; einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/679#…

Out today, The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925 by Albert Einstein and edited by Ze’ev Rosenkranz is a marvelously annotated &illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diary. Out in hardcover and ebook. hubs.ly/Q01xxDpT0 @EinsteinPapers

EPP editor Ze'ev Rosenkranz's book "The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925" comes out Jan. 10th from @PrincetonUPress. Follow this link to learn more about it: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

@CaltechMagazine's fall issue contained an article about @Caltech #trees. The American Sweetgum growing at the southeast corner of the project was featured, central photo. Photo at right is its current state. P. Ehrenfest wrote to A. Einstein about the trees of Pasadena:

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16 is now online: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol16-doc/ Thanks @PrincetonUPress for your help in making our work accessible to as many interested readers as possible.

Volume 16 of the CPAE is officially online tomorrow, 30 November, the centenary of Einstein receiving the Nobel Prize for his "service to theoretical physics". einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol16-doc/ Here's a refresher on navigating the Digital Einstein Papers:

#150ansLangevin Diana K. Buchwald prof @Caltech et directrice @EinsteinPapers aborde la question de l'amitié entre Paul Langevin et Albert Einstein, à travers notamment une riche correspondance dans les archives @Bibli_ESPCI

EPP Director, Diana Kormos Buchwald, will present "Langevin and Einstein: a friendship in documents" @ESPCI_Paris, next week, on French physicist Paul Langevin's 150th birthday.

October 1922: Einstein embarked to Japan, Palestine and Spain. He sketched and jotted notes in his travel diary, in the pic below he illustrated equatorial cloud formation. Access the entry and the rest of the diary via this link: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-trans/33… #OTM2022

2/2 To read the entire lecture in German, see einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol7-doc/102. For English: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol7-trans/57.

1/2 In honor of Max Planck's 60th birthday in 1918, Einstein delivered a lecture at the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. In between extolling Planck's accomplishments, Einstein took the opportunity to wax poetic on what inspires people to research:

EPP editors Buchwald and Kennefick will present at INSAP XI, next week. Check out the conference program: sites.astro.caltech.edu/cosmexp/index.…

2/2 Einstein was conferred a member of the prestigious institution that same year. To read the letter in support of Einstein in German, see: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-doc/576. For English: einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-trans/358. With thanks to the @bundesarchiv for the image of the Prussian Academy.

1/2 Einstein's brilliance was recognized early in his career. Max Planck, Walther Nernst, Heinrich Rubens, and Emil Warburg acknowledged this when they proposed his membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences in June 1913. Despite AE's young age, they noted that: