Papers and Writings

Einstein has written and published a huge number of papers, documents and articles that can't be all collected in this site. His first essay or scientific work was in 1894 under a title of " The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields ". He sent this essay with a letter to his uncle Caser Koch.

The Einstein Papers Project (EPP) publishes in large book format The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, an edition of twenty-five planned volumes of Albert Einstein's scientific, professional and personal papers, manuscripts and correspondence. Eight volumes have been published so far by Princeton University Press; two more are in preparation, to be published within the next three years. Most of the original documents in the Einstein collection are located at The Albert Einstein Archives at the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

A chronological listing of some of his papers is shown hereafter starting by the year 1905.

1900 - 1910
1905     On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions   1906   On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption   1907   On the relativity principle and the conclusions drawn from it On the Limit of Validity of the Law of Thermodynamic Equilibrium and on the Possibility of a New Determination of the Elementary Quanta   1908   A New Electrostatic Method for the Measurement of Small Quantities of Electricity On the Fundamental Electromagnetic Equations for Moving Bodies On the Present Status of the Radiation Problem
1911 - 1920
1911     Ueber den Einfluss der Schwerkraft auf die Ausbreitung des Lichtes. (Over the influence of the gravity on the expansion of the light)   1913   Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitaetstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation (Design of a generalized relativity theory and a theory of the gravitation)   1914   On the Principle of Relativity Covariance Properties of the Field Equations of the Theory of Gravitation Based on the Generalized Theory of Relativity   1915   Response to a Paper by M. von Laue: 'A Theorem in Probability Calculus and Its Application to Radiation Theory' On the General Theory of Relativity On the General Theory of Relativity (Addendum) Explanation of the Perihelion Motion of Mercury from the General Theory of Relativity A New Formal Interpretation of Maxwell's Field Equations of Electrodynamics   1916   On the Theory of Tetrode and Sackur for the Entropy Constant The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity Approximative Integration of the Field Equations of Gravitation Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Quantum Theory Hamilton 's Principle and the General Theory of Relativity   1917   Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity On the Quantum Theorem of Sommerfeld and Epstein A Derivation of Jacobi's Theorem   1918   Comment on Schrödinger's Note 'On a System of Solutions for the Generally Covariant Gravitational Field Equations' Is It Possible to Determine Experimentally the X-Ray Refractive Indices of Solids? The Law of Energy Conservation in the General Theory of Relativity   1919   Do Gravitational Fields Play an Essential Role in the Structure of the Elementary Particles of Matter? Comment about Periodical Fluctuations of Lunar Longitude, Which So Far Appeared to Be Inexplicable in Newtonian Mechanics   1920   Do Gravitational Fields Play an Essential Role in the Structure of the Elementary Particles of Matter? Comment about Periodical Fluctuations of Lunar Longitude, Which So Far Appeared to Be Inexplicable in Newtonian Mechanics
1921 - 1930
1928     Riemannian Geometry with Maintaining the Notion of Distant Parallelism New possibility for a Unified Field Theory of Gravitation and Electricity   1929   About the Unified Field Theory Unified Field Theory and Hamiltonian Principle The Compatibility of the Field Equations in the Unified Field Theory   1930   Unified Field Theory based on Riemannian Metrics and Distant Parallelism
1931 - 1949
1931     Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics (With Richard C. Tolman, and Boris Podolsky)   1932   Einstein-de Sitter model   1935   Elementary Derivation of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (EPR paper with Boris Podolsky, Nathen Rosen)   1936   Lens-Like Action of a star by the Deviation of Light in The Gravitational field   1937   Further Tests regarding the Hypothesis of there being a Stationary State in the Universe. With 2 Illustrations.   1938   On the Effects of External Sensory Input on Time Dilation Evolution of Physics   1939   A trial to prove that you can't make a black hole in nature   1940   Einstein hand wrote his 1905 theory on relativity and allowed it to be auctioned.   1949   Generalized theory of gravitation