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Einstein: His Life and Universe is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson.The biographical analysis of Albert Einstein's life and legacy was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007, and it has received a generally positive critical reception from multiple fronts, [1] [2] praise appearing from an official Amazon.com review as well as in publications such ...
The Einstein-de Haas experiment is the only experiment concived, realized and published by Albert Einstein himself. A complete original version of the Einstein-de Haas experimental equipment was donated by Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz , wife of de Haas and daughter of Lorentz, to the Ampère Museum in Lyon France in 1961 where it is currently on ...
The book serves as both a biography of Albert Einstein and a catalog of his works and scientific achievements. [9] [13] Though there were several well-known biographies of Einstein prior to the book's publication, this was the first which focused on his scientific research, as opposed to his life as a popular figure.
Pais was perhaps best known for his biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, [11] and its companion volume, Einstein Lived Here (Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1994). [12] Subtle is the Lord won the 1983 U.S. National Book Award in Science. [13] [note 1]
Einstein frequently referred to his belief system as "cosmic religion" and authored an eponymous article on the subject in 1954, which later became his book Ideas and Opinions in 1955. [10] The belief system recognized a "miraculous order which manifests itself in all of nature as well as in the world of ideas," devoid of a personal God who ...
Albert Einstein, 1947. The World as I See It is a book by Albert Einstein translated from the German by A. Harris and published in 1935 by John Lane The Bodley Head (London). The original German book is Mein Weltbild by Albert Einstein, first published in 1934 by Rudolf Kayser, with an essential extended edition published by Carl Seelig in 1954 ...
The book features a young Albert Einstein, before he discovered the theory of relativity. As a child, young Albert Einstein was given a compass that fascinated him. No matter which way he turned it, it pointed north. The compass had a profound impact on his life. It inspired him to never stop being curious, and never stop discovering.
The novel fictionalizes Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is troubled by dreams as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905. The book consists of 35 sections, each either devoted to one dream about time that Einstein had, or to a waking scene surrounding Einstein's behavior and health during the creation of his theory of relativity.