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The world’s first stop, “Einstein Exhibition – The Genius of Relativity,” has grandly opened in Taiwan! For the first time ever and exclusively loaned by the Israeli Einstein Archives, the exhibition centers around Albert Einstein, the most important scientist of the 20th century, focusing on four major aspects of his life: scientific achievements, private life, public image, and Einstein’s impact on the contemporary world.
The Einstein Exhibition is being held at the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
The exhibition began on January 12, 2018, featuring nearly a hundred authentic relics that influenced his life and thinking. Due to the preciousness of the paper exhibits, Hebrew University meticulously controlled lighting, temperature, and humidity to protect them. This exhibition also developed five digital interactive installations based on Einstein’s theories, allowing visitors to experience many of his scientific theories firsthand in an immersive way, making it easy to understand the genius of the century. A must-see highlight is that while learning more about Einstein’s life and thinking, visitors can also take interactive photos and leave special memories.
1. 1946 Original Manuscript of the Mass-Energy Equivalence (E=mc²) Paper
In October 2017, two handwritten notes by Einstein on the theory of happiness, written 95 years ago, were auctioned in Jerusalem, Israel, for a record-breaking $1.8 million, sparking widespread media attention. The nearly one hundred original manuscripts brought to Taiwan this time make the exhibition’s total value exceed hundreds of millions of Taiwan dollars. This exhibition marks the first exclusive loan by the Israeli Einstein Archives of Einstein’s most influential authentic manuscripts, personal collections, and many important documents never before loaned from Israel, such as the highly anticipated manuscript of the “General Theory of Relativity” and the handwritten original listing the famous formula E=mc². It is the most important international-level exhibition in Taiwan’s scientific history, premiering globally.
This article was written after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the article, Einstein discusses the two fundamental physical laws that existed before the theory of relativity: the law of conservation of energy and the law of conservation of mass. He points out that in the special theory of relativity, these two laws merge into one, because mass is a form of energy, which, together with mechanical, chemical, and thermal energy, constitutes the total energy of a material body. This article contains the most famous formula in the history of science, E=mc², handwritten by Einstein himself.
2. 1922 Nobel Prize Medal Awarded to Einstein by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
3. Timeline and Major Events in Einstein’s Life
4. Photo with Young Einstein
Take a photo with a large portrait of young Einstein in this scene.
