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Einstein his life and universe

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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: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
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Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955-
Physicists > Biography.
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955 > Friends and associates.
Relativity (Physics)
Unified field theories.
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Table of 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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