Einstein : his life and universe /
The 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...
| Основен автор: | Isaacson, Walter. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
2008.
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| Издание: | 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. |
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Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Main characters
- ch. 1. The
- light-beam rider
- ch. 2.
- Childhood, 1879-1896
- ch. 3. The
- Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900
- ch. 4. The
- lovers, 1900-1904
- ch. 5. The
- miracle year : quanta and molecules, 1905
- ch. 6.
- Special relativity, 1905
- ch. 7. The
- happiest thought, 1906-1909
- ch. 8. The
- wandering professor, 1909-1914
- ch. 9.
- General relativity, 1911-1915
- ch. 10.
- Divorce, 1916-1919
- ch. 11.
- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919
- ch. 12.
- Fame, 1919
- ch. 13. The
- wandering Zionist, 1920-1921
- ch .14.
- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927
- ch. 15.
- Unified field theories, 1923-1931
- ch. 16.
- Turning fifty, 1929-1931
- ch. 17.
- Einstein's God
- ch. 18. The
- refugee, 1932-1933
- ch. 19.
- America, 1933-1939
- ch. 20.
- Quantum entanglement, 1935
- ch. 21.The
- bomb, 1939-1945
- ch. 22.
- One-worlder, 1945-1948
- ch. 23.
- Landmark, 1948-1953
- ch. 24.
- Red scare, 1951-1954
- ch. 25. The
- end, 1955
- Epilogue : Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind
- Sources
- Notes
- Index.