| Description |
xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Previously published as The everything Einstein book, 2003. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Explore the life, times, and mind of the man behind the legend. |
| Contents |
Why Einstein? -- Early life -- Scientific and cultural background of Einstein's time -- Education and later life -- The photoelectric effect -- Special relativity -- Energy and mass -- Other major early papers -- Einstein's contemporaries -- Background on the general theory of relativity -- Einstein in Berlin -- Einstein and the general theory of relativity -- Quantum Theory and Einstein's role -- Cosmology -- Later years: effects of the nuclear age -- Later years: family and humanitarianism. |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Physicists -- Biography.
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Relativity (Physics)
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. (OCoLC)fst00032023
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Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
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Relativity (Physics) (OCoLC)fst01093604
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Phillips, Cynthia, 1973-
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| Added Title |
Einstein |
| ISBN |
159869071X (pbk.) |
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9781598690712 (pbk.) |
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