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035 $a(OCoLC)893608664
100 1 $aIsaacson, Walter.
245 10 $aEinstein :$bhis life and universe /$cWalter Isaacson.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c©2007.
300 $axxii, 675, [16] pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 553-564) and index.
505 00 $tAcknowledgments --$tMain characters --$gch. 1.$tThe light-beam rider --$gch. 2.$tChildhood, 1879-1896 --$gch. 3.$tThe Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 --$gch. 4.$tThe lovers, 1900-1904 --$gch. 5.$tThe miracle year : quanta and molecules, 1905 --$gch. 6.$tSpecial relativity, 1905 --$gch. 7.$tThe happiest thought, 1906-1909 --$gch. 8.$tThe wandering professor, 1909-1914 --$gch. 9.$tGeneral relativity, 1911-1915 --$gch. 10.$tDivorce, 1916-1919 --$gch. 11.$tEinstein's universe, 1916-1919 --$gch. 12.$tFame, 1919 --$gch. 13.$tThe wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 --$gch .14.$tNobel laureate, 1921-1927 --$gch. 15.$tUnified field theories, 1923-1931 --$gch. 16.$tTurning fifty, 1929-1931 --$gch. 17.$tEinstein's God --$gch. 18.$tThe refugee, 1932-1933 --$gch. 19.$tAmerica, 1933-1939 --$gch. 20.$tQuantum entanglement, 1935 --$gch. 21.$tThe bomb, 1939-1945 --$gch. 22.$tOne-worlder, 1945-1948 --$gch. 23.$tLandmark, 1948-1953 --$gch. 24.$tRed scare, 1951-1954 --$gch. 25.$tThe end, 1955 --$tEpilogue : Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind --$tSources --$tNotes --$tIndex.
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.
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