| Publication |
Great Britain, Thames & Hudson, 1999.
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| Description |
143pBlack Spine
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| Series |
New Horizons
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| Summary/Abstract |
Describes the life of the brilliant scientist, mathematician, astronomer and humanist , Albert Einstein, who , although not a brilliant student, published groundbreaking studies of the relationships of mass, energy, the speed of light and the ways in which they are observed and measured. A Jew in Nazi Germany, he fled when World War II came about and his theories were fundamental to the construction of the atom bomb.
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| Contents |
A passion to understand
Physics in crisis
A year of miracles
Matter, space, time
The uses of fame
The old man alone
Einstein's legacy
Documents
Chronology
Furthur reading
List of illustrations
Index
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| Standard Number |
0810929805 Pb.
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