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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...

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Main Author: Isaacson, Walter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008.
Edition:1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Physical Description:
xxii, 675 pages of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955.
Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955 -- Friends and associates.
Physicists -- Biography.
Relativity (Physics)
Unified field theories.
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Main characters
  • ch. 1. Light- beam rider
  • ch. 2. Childhood, 1879-1896
  • ch. 3. Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900
  • ch. 4. Lovers, 1900- 1904
  • ch. 5. Miracle year : quanta and molecules, 1905
  • ch. 6. Special relativity, 1905
  • ch. 7. Happiest thought, 1906-1909
  • ch. 8. Wandering professor, 1909- 1914
  • ch. 9. General relativity, 1911-1915
  • ch. 10. Divorce, 1916-1919
  • ch. 11. Einstein's universe, 1916-1919
  • ch. 12. Fame, 1919
  • ch. 13. Wandering Zionist, 1920-1921
  • ch .14. Nobel laureate, 1921-1927
  • ch. 15. Unified field theories, 1923-1931
  • ch. 16. Turning fifty, 1929-1931
  • ch. 17. Einstein's God
  • ch. 18. Refugee, 1932-1933
  • ch. 19. America, 1933- 1939
  • ch. 20. Quantum entanglement, 1935
  • ch. 21. Bomb, 1939-1945
  • ch. 22. One-worlder, 1945-1948
  • ch. 23. Landmark, 1948-1953
  • ch. 24. Red scare, 1951-1954
  • ch. 25. End, 1955
  • Epilogue : Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind
  • Sources
  • Notes
  • Index.

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