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001 2006051264
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005 20101014081736.0
008 061207s2007 nyuaf b 001 0beng
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050 00 $aQC16.E5$bI76 2007
082 00 $a530.092$aB$222
100 1 $aIsaacson, Walter.
245 10 $aEinstein :$bhis life and universe /$cWalter Isaacson.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$cc2007.
300 $axxii, 675, [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index.
520 $aThe 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.
505 0 $aThe 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.
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955.
650 0 $aPhysicists$vBiography.
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955$xFriends and associates.
650 0 $aRelativity (Physics)
650 0 $aUnified field theories.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2006051264-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2006051264-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2006051264-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2006051264-b.html