Albert Einstein correspondence now available to researchers

The Special Collections Research Center is excited to announce the acquisition of a new collection featuring correspondence with Albert Einstein! The Raimond Struble Correspondence With Karl Menger, John T. Tate, and Albert Einstein contains a typed letter with handwritten notes from Einstein when he was a professor at Princeton to Raimond Struble, who was a graduate student at Notre Dame. Struble went on to become professor of mathematics at NC State from from 1958 to 1987. The letters discuss observations of binary stars that support Einstein's theory of special relativity and refute theories of physicist Walther Ritz.

Read more about the story of the letters and how they came to NC State here.

The collection has been digitized in its entirety and can be accessed on Special Collections' Rare and Unique Digitized Collections site.

If you have any questions or are interested in viewing Special Collections materials, please contact us at library_specialcollections@ncsu.edu or submit a request online. The Special Collections Research Center is open by appointment only. Appointments are available Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm and Saturday, 1pm–5pm. Requests for a Saturday appointment must be received no later than Tuesday of the same week. Special Collections will be closed from Dec. 22nd through Jan. 6th for winter break and reopen for appointments the week of Jan. 8th.