Einstein online.

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When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he left behind thousands of documents, including letters, scientific manuscripts, speeches, and political writings, and he probably never dreamed that one day millions of people would be able to access them as they can today via the Internet.

The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University and the California Institute of Technology recently introduced a new Web site, www.alberteinstein.info, containing digitized images of 900 Einstein papers as well as a searchable list of 43,000 documents in the archive. The online collection also includes all 230 original scientific manuscripts and drafts that were in his possession when he died, according to Diana Kormos Buchwald, a science historian at the California Institute of Technology and director of the Einstein Papers Project, which has published eight annotated volumes of Einstein's papers.

Among the documents posted online is a...