03407cam a2200397 a 4500 8709 8709 OSt 20220712141032.0 061207s2007 nyuaf b 001 0beng 9781847390547 AEF QC16.E5 I76 2007 530.092 22nd ed. ISA Isaacson, Walter. 2452 Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007. xxii, 675, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index. The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's God -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Epilogue: Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind. The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.--From publisher description. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. 2453 Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 Friends and associates. 2454 Physicists Biography. 2455 Relativity (Physics) 2456 Unified field theories. 163 Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2006051264-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2006051264-s.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2006051264-t.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2006051264-b.html ddc Book 0 0 ddc 0 0 AEF AEF C33S162 2022-07-12 Bill No.: RS 4383 Dated : 12/01/2018 0.00 530.092 ISA 3364 2022-07-12 01 599.00 2022-07-12 Book