einstein, albert

A biography of Jewish physicist Albert Einstein, his contributions to science and his role as a pacifist.

On title page: "Including over 400 photographs, documents, drawings, and graphics and a chronological appendix.".

Examines the life of genius physicist Albert Einstein, discussing his childhood, student years, important discoveries, public fame, and personal sorrows.

A collection of Albert Einstein's public and private writings that reveal his political views and opinions on key political issues.

A young woman discovers Albert Einstein in a European office building nearly sixty years after his death and begins an enlightening conversation with him about relativity, light, space-time, and the dangers of simplifying.

Examines Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity through the eyes of astronomers in Germany, England, and America who competed to test his conclusions.

Twenty-four scientists, including Roger Highfield, John Archibald Wheeler, Lee Smolin, and Leon M. Lederman, discuss physicist Albert Einstein's influences on their work, their worldviews, and their personal lives.

Presents a collection of letters, speeches, and articles by Albert Einstein that speak to the physicist's anti-racist sentiments and activities, and includes narrative text that explains the context in which the writings were done.

Discusses the upheaval that swept the scientific world over physicist Albert Einstein's refusal to accept the theory of quantum mechanics advanced by his colleague Niels Bohr.

Blends science, history, and biography in an exploration of how mathematical language has been used to to make sense of the physical world, focusing on Einstein's hero James Clerk Maxwell and his four equations on electricty and magnetism, as well as the work of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.