Bibliograph

Einstein, his life and universe, Walter Isaacson

Type

Label

Einstein, his life and universe, Walter Isaacson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Einstein

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

76961150

Responsibility statement

Walter Isaacson

Sub title

his life and universe

Summary

Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk<U+2014>a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn<U+2019>t get a teaching job or a doctorate<U+2014>became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, 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

Table Of Contents

Main characters -- The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1886-1900 -- 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 -- Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind

Target audience

adult

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