Lightman, Alan P.

Presents a collection of essays that ruminate on the distinction between art and science--how humanists and scientists perceivec the world--with in-depth portraits of famous thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Edward Teller.

A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.

Fictional account of patent clerk Albert Einstein and the new worlds he imagines in his dreams.

Relates the stories of twenty-two of the most significant scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, from Max Planck's discovery of the quantum in 1900, to Paul Berg's discovery of recombinant DNA in 1972, and includes reprints of the original papers announcing the findings.