Missing Einstein scientific manuscript discovered

Newly-discovered notes scribbled by Albert Einstein have solved a ‘puzzle’ from the scientific genius.

The scribbled page of writing was part of an appendix to a paper written on unified field theory by the celebrated physicist in 1930.

It was found among a 110-page collection donated to Israel’s Hebrew University.

“This article was one of many in Einstein’s attempts to unify the forces of nature into one, single theory and he devoted the last 30 years of his life to this effort,” the university said, describing the paper.

“The scientific connection of many of these calculations is still not clear,” it explained, but are part of Einstein’s works to integrate all the forces of nature into a single theory.

The archive – unveiled on the eve of Einstein’s 140^th birthday later this month – also includes letters by the German-born scientist describing his fears about the rise of the Nazis.

Einstein, who grew up in a secular Jewish family, wrote to his son, Hans Albert, in 1935 that events in Germany “are slowly starting to change”.

“Let’s just hope we won’t have a Europe war first … the rest of Europe is now starting to finally take the thing seriously, especially the British,” he declared.

Einstein migrated to the US in 1933, just before Hitler became the leader of Germany. His letters from that year detail his escape from the Nazis and his efforts to help Jews flee the country.

Einstein was one of the founders of the Hebrew University.

He died in 1955 at the age of 76.