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Einstein : a biography / Jürgen Neffe ; translated from the German by Shelley Frisch.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: x, 461 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0374146640 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780374146641 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Einstein. English
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Contents:
Translator's preface -- Prologue : The immortal : Einstein's secret -- 1. His second birth : the fateful year 1919 -- 2. How Albert became Einstein : the psychological makeup of a genius -- 3. "A new era!" : from industrialist's son to inventor -- 4. Of dwarfs and giants : a brief history of science, according to Einstein -- 5. The burden of inheritance : Einstein detectives in action -- 6. "Elsa or Ilse" : the physicist and the women -- 7. The miraculous path to the miraculous year : Einstein's angels -- 8. Squaring the light : why Einstein had to discover the theory of relativity -- 9. Why is the sky blue? : Einstein - a career -- 10. "Dear boys, your Papa" : the drama of the brilliant father -- 11. Anatomy of a discovery : how Einstein found the general theory of relativity -- 12. Lambda lives : Einstein, "Chief engineer of the universe" -- 13. Spacetime quakes : the theory of relativity put to the test -- 14. His best foe : Einstein, Germany, and politics -- 15. "I am not a tiger" : Einstein, the human side -- 16. A Jew named Albert : his God was a principle -- 17. The end justifies the doubts : Einstein and quantum theory -- 18. Of the magnitude of failure : the quest for the unified theory -- 19. From Barbaria to Dollaria : Einstein's America -- 20. "People are a bad invention" : Einstein, the atomic bomb, McCarthy, and the end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology, and for his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. A self-pronounced pacifist, humanist, and, late in his life, democratic socialist, Einstein was also deeply concerned with the social impact of his discoveries.   Much of Einstein's life is shrouded in legend. From popular images and advertisements to various works of theater and fiction, he has come to signify so many things. In Einstein: A Biography , Jürgen Neffe presents a clear and probing portrait of the man behind the myth. Unearthing new documents, including a series of previously unknown letters from Einstein to his sons, which shed new light on his role as a father, Neffe paints a rich portrait of the tumultuous years in which Einstein lived and worked. And with a background in the sciences, he describes and contextualizes Einstein's enormous contributions to our scientific legacy.   Einstein , a breakout bestseller in Germany, is sure to be a classic biography of the man and proverbial genius who has been called "the brain of the [twentieth] century."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-440) and index.

Translator's preface -- Prologue : The immortal : Einstein's secret -- 1. His second birth : the fateful year 1919 -- 2. How Albert became Einstein : the psychological makeup of a genius -- 3. "A new era!" : from industrialist's son to inventor -- 4. Of dwarfs and giants : a brief history of science, according to Einstein -- 5. The burden of inheritance : Einstein detectives in action -- 6. "Elsa or Ilse" : the physicist and the women -- 7. The miraculous path to the miraculous year : Einstein's angels -- 8. Squaring the light : why Einstein had to discover the theory of relativity -- 9. Why is the sky blue? : Einstein - a career -- 10. "Dear boys, your Papa" : the drama of the brilliant father -- 11. Anatomy of a discovery : how Einstein found the general theory of relativity -- 12. Lambda lives : Einstein, "Chief engineer of the universe" -- 13. Spacetime quakes : the theory of relativity put to the test -- 14. His best foe : Einstein, Germany, and politics -- 15. "I am not a tiger" : Einstein, the human side -- 16. A Jew named Albert : his God was a principle -- 17. The end justifies the doubts : Einstein and quantum theory -- 18. Of the magnitude of failure : the quest for the unified theory -- 19. From Barbaria to Dollaria : Einstein's America -- 20. "People are a bad invention" : Einstein, the atomic bomb, McCarthy, and the end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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