The Hebrew University said that the Israeli government decided on Sunday to contribute millions of dollars to a museum to hold the world’s greatest collection of Albert Einstein documents.
It will be constructed on the Givat Ram campus of the university in Jerusalem, with the government providing around $6 million and the university funding an additional $12 million.
Einstein, one of the Hebrew University’s founding fathers, served as a non-resident governor of the institution.
Einstein hailed as one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, died at the age of 76 in 1955.
It is the most extensive collection of Einstein documents in the world, according to curator Roni Grosz, who stated that the archive’s 85,000 items made it the most extensive collection of Einstein materials in the world.
The university stated that the museum will store the whole Einstein archive and serve as an “innovative place for scientific and technical education.”
“Using 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 his participation in significant historical moments during his lifetime,” according to a statement.
Einstein’s relativity ideas revolutionized the area by giving novel perspectives on the motion of objects in space and time.
He also made significant advances to quantum mechanics theory and was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Einstein’s dry witticisms and signature untamed hair, mustache, and bushy eyebrows have made him a cultural hero.
Original Einstein writings are still auctioned for millions of dollars.
