Einstein : a biography /
Neffe, Jürgen, 1956-
Einstein : a biography / Jürgen Neffe ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch. - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. - x, 461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-440) and index.
Translator's preface -- Prologue : The immortal : Einstein's secret -- His second birth : the fateful year 1919 -- How Albert became Einstein : the psychological makeup of a genius -- new era!" : from industrialist's son to inventor -- Of dwarfs and giants : a brief history of science, according to Einstein -- burden of inheritance : Einstein detectives in action -- "Elsa or Ilse" : the physicist and the women -- miraculous path to the miraculous year : Einstein's angels -- Squaring the light : why Einstein had to discover the theory of relativity -- Why is the sky blue? : Einstein - a career -- "Dear boys, your Papa" : the drama of the brilliant father -- Anatomy of a discovery : how Einstein found the general theory of relativity -- Lambda lives : Einstein, "Chief engineer of the universe" -- Spacetime quakes : the theory of relativity put to the test -- His best foe : Einstein, Germany, and politics -- "I am not a tiger" : Einstein, the human side -- Jew named Albert : his God was a principle -- end justifies the doubts : Einstein and quantum theory -- Of the magnitude of failure : the quest for the unified theory -- From Barbaria to Dollaria : Einstein's America -- "People are a bad invention" : Einstein, the atomic bomb, McCarthy, and the end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 1. 2. 3. "A 4. 5. The 6. 7. The 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. A 17. The 18. 19. 20.
0374146640 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374146641 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006026136
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists--Biography.
Einstein : a biography / Jürgen Neffe ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch. - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. - x, 461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-440) and index.
Translator's preface -- Prologue : The immortal : Einstein's secret -- His second birth : the fateful year 1919 -- How Albert became Einstein : the psychological makeup of a genius -- new era!" : from industrialist's son to inventor -- Of dwarfs and giants : a brief history of science, according to Einstein -- burden of inheritance : Einstein detectives in action -- "Elsa or Ilse" : the physicist and the women -- miraculous path to the miraculous year : Einstein's angels -- Squaring the light : why Einstein had to discover the theory of relativity -- Why is the sky blue? : Einstein - a career -- "Dear boys, your Papa" : the drama of the brilliant father -- Anatomy of a discovery : how Einstein found the general theory of relativity -- Lambda lives : Einstein, "Chief engineer of the universe" -- Spacetime quakes : the theory of relativity put to the test -- His best foe : Einstein, Germany, and politics -- "I am not a tiger" : Einstein, the human side -- Jew named Albert : his God was a principle -- end justifies the doubts : Einstein and quantum theory -- Of the magnitude of failure : the quest for the unified theory -- From Barbaria to Dollaria : Einstein's America -- "People are a bad invention" : Einstein, the atomic bomb, McCarthy, and the end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 1. 2. 3. "A 4. 5. The 6. 7. The 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. A 17. The 18. 19. 20.
0374146640 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374146641 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2006026136
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists--Biography.