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A Life

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An edition of Einstein (1996)

Einstein

A Life

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His name is synonymous with genius. His work helped shape the twentieth century and point the way toward the next. In the more than forty years since his death, Albert Einstein has continued to intrigue and inspire new generations. Now, in the first full-scale biography of Einstein to be published in some twenty years, acclaimed author Denis Brian probes the private, public, and scientific personas of the enigmatic man behind the legend.

For two decades, Denis Brian pored over the Einstein archives and conducted extensive interviews with the scientist's friends and associates. In the process, he discovered a wealth of absorbing new information, much of it previously withheld by those closest to Einstein - including Helen Dukas, his personal secretary, and Otto Nathan, the executor of Einstein's estate. What emerges in Brian's brilliantly drawn life of Einstein is a down-to-earth and always compelling figure.

Exploring this staggering legacy in conversation with many of Einstein's contemporaries, Denis Brian penetrates the veil of formulas, theories, and experiments to expand our understanding of their meaning. With incisive, intimate detail, he recreates the world in which Einstein worked, in solitude and with others, revered by his assistants and enjoying warm relationships with other physicists.

Also included in Brian's comprehensive portrait are the FBI's investigation of Einstein's alleged communist connections, as well as his efforts on behalf of Europe's Jews during Hitler's rise to power, and his ardent support of the formation of the state of Israel.

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Publisher
Wiley
Language
English
Pages
528

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March 22, 2005, Wiley-VCH
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Cover of: Einstein
Einstein: A Life
August 7, 1997, Wiley
in English
Cover of: Einstein
Einstein: a life
1996, J. Wiley
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Einstein
Einstein: A Life
April 6, 1996, John Wiley & Sons
in English

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First Sentence

"Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, with a swollen, misshapen head and a grossly overweight body, causing his grandmother, Jette Koch, to wail, "Much too fat!""

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Library of Congress
QC16.E5

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Open Library
OL7613163M
Internet Archive
einstein00deni
ISBN 10
0471193623
ISBN 13
9780471193623
Library Thing
211760
Goodreads
193797

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