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Einstein : his life and universe /

By: Isaacson,Walter
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, c2007.Description: xxii, 675 p. : ill., ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781501171383; 1501171380Subject(s): Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955 -- Friends and associates | Physicists -- Biography | Biography | Unified field theories | Friendship | PhysicistsDDC classification: 530.092 Online resources: Location Map
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By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn t get a teaching job or a doctorate 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. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
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Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Light-Beam Rider
ch. Two Childhood, 1879
1896
ch. Three The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896
1900
ch. Four The Lovers, 1900
1904
ch. Five The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905
ch. Six Special Relativity, 1905
ch. Seven The Happiest Thought, 1906
1909
ch. Eight The Wandering Professor, 1909
1914
ch. Nine General Relativity, 1911
1915
ch. Ten Divorce, 1916
1919
ch. Eleven Einstein's Universe, 1916
ch. Twelve Fame, 1919
ch. Thirteen The Wandering Zionist, 1920
1921
ch. Fourteen Nobel Laureate, 1921
1927
ch. Fifteen Unified Field Theories, 1923
1931
ch. Sixteen Turning Fifty, 1929
ch. Seventeen Einstein's God
ch. Eighteen The Refugee, 1932
1933
ch. Nineteen America, 1933
1939
ch. Twenty Quantum Entanglement, 1935
ch. Twenty-One The Bomb, 1939
1945
ch. Twenty-Two One- Worlder, 1945
1948
ch. Twenty-Three Landmark, 1948
1953
Contents note continued: ch. Twenty-Four Red Scare, 1951
1954
ch. Twenty-Five The End, 1955.


By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn t get a teaching job or a doctorate 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. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.

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