Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson.
Isaacson, Walter.
2007
QC16.E5 I76 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson.
Author Isaacson, Walter.
ISBN 9780743264730
0743264738
Publication Details New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Language English
Description xxii, 675, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number QC16.E5 I76 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.092 B
Summary The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index.
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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.

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