Einstein: His Life and Universe
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A century after Albert Einstein began postulating his "Big Idea" about time, space, and gravity, a new biography examines the scientist whose public idolization was surpassed only by his legitimacy as one of humanity's greatest thinkers. Walter Isaacson, the author of excellent profiles of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, utilizes a trove of material from recently opened Einstein archives to offer a probing look at a provocatively freethinking individual. The New York Times - Janet Maslin With the help of many witty, candid letters, Mr. Isaacson offers a wonderfully rounded portrait of the ever-surprising Einstein personality. Equally important is the Einstein myth, and the material on this subject is even more entertaining. Einstein horrified his colleagues by enjoying his vast celebrity. ( Einstein s personality, for no clear reasons, triggers outbursts of a kind of mass hysteria, the German consul reported to Berlin as the great man made one of his rock-star visits to New York.) He also stymied the press in its efforts to keep up with his accomplishments. Mr. Isaacson has great fun with the reportorial frenzy that surrounded each new pearl of Einsteinian wisdom … an illuminating delight.
Acknowledgments xvMain Characters xixThe Light-Beam Rider 1Childhood, 1879-1896 8The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 32The Lovers, 1900-1904 50The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905 90Special Relativity, 1905 107The Happiest Thought, 1906-1909 140The Wandering Professor, 1909-1914 158General Relativity, 1911-1915 189Divorce, 1916-1919 225Einstein's Universe, 1916-1919 249Fame, 1919 263The Wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 281Nobel Laureate, 1921-1927 309Unified Field Theories, 1923-1931 336Turning Fifty, 1929-1931 357Einstein's God 384The Refugee, 1932-1933 394America, 1933-1939 425Quantum Entanglement, 1935 448The Bomb, 1939-1945 471One-Worlder, 1945-1948 487Landmark, 1948-1953 508Red Scare, 1951-1954 524The End, 1955 535Epilogue: Einstein's Brain and Einstein's Mind 544Sources 553Notes 565Index 643
