Draws from Albert Einstein's personal letters to tell his life story and examine his way of thinking, exploring his methods of questioning the world and showing how this shaped his politics and morality.
Examines the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century English physicist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity, magnetism, and light.
how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
Reich, Eugenie Samuel
2009
Discusses the scientific scandal that arose when researchers at Bell Laboratories discovered that wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Sch?n falsified his data to prove that he had discovered a simpler way to make transistors, which would have drastically improved energy technology.
Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world
Dolnick, Edward
2012
Examines how, at the end of the seventeenth century, a group of geniuses that included Isaac Newton re-imagined the field of science by finding intricate and precise patterns that regulated the world and the chaos that seemed to exist in it.
Discusses various beliefs about the origin and nature of the universe and the studies of such scientists as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein, who have advanced our understanding of the universe.