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Author	Isaacson, Walter.
Title	Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson.
Publication Info.	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 7	92 E35 I	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxii, 675 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Note	Illustrations on lining paper.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index.
Contents	Main characters -- The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1986-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's god -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind.
Subject	Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
	Physicists -- Biography.
	Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Friends and associates.
	Relativity (Physics)
	Unified field theories.
Added Title	Albert Einstein, his life and universe
ISBN	9780743264730
	0743264738

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