Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007Description: xxii, 675, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0743264738 :Subject(s): Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Physicists -- Biography | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Friends and associates | Relativity (Physics)DDC classification: 530.092 | B LOC classification: QC16.E5 | I76 2007Online resources: Publisher description| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index.
The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's God -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Epilogue: Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind.
A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
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