Author: Isaacson, Walter.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008, c2007.
ISBN: 9780743264747 (pbk.)
0743264746 (pbk.)
Description: xxii, 675 : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 Friends and associates.
Physicists Biography.
Relativity (Physics).
Unified field theories.
Contents: 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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