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Albert Einstein : a biography / Alice Calaprice and Trevor Lipscombe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Greenwood biographiesPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.Description: xxiii, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0313330808 (alk. paper)
  • 9780313330803 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530/.092 22
  • B 22
LOC classification:
  • QC16.E5 C34 2005
Contents:
"It is a known fact that I was born-- " -- Training the mind -- To love and to work -- The physics of the "year of miracles," 1905 -- Academic life in Switzerland -- The early Berlin years : war and pacifism -- The road to general relativity -- The later Berlin years : postwar turmoil and the rise of Hitler -- On the road again -- Coming to America -- Final years of an "enfant terrible" -- Einstein the experimenter.
Summary: Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 921/EIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844400051740

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-154) and index.

"It is a known fact that I was born-- " -- Training the mind -- To love and to work -- The physics of the "year of miracles," 1905 -- Academic life in Switzerland -- The early Berlin years : war and pacifism -- The road to general relativity -- The later Berlin years : postwar turmoil and the rise of Hitler -- On the road again -- Coming to America -- Final years of an "enfant terrible" -- Einstein the experimenter.

Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

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