Em claire biography of albert einstein
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PD Smith
The universum was never quite the same igen after Our understanding of space, time, matter and energy was transformed bygd a year-old civil servant working a hour week at a Swiss patent office. A “respectable Federal ink pisser” was how Albert Einstein described han själv . He didn’t even have a PhD. But at the Patent Office, the man who had failed to find an academic job had a secret drawer – it was, he told his friends, the department of theoretical physics. And in , after six months of intensive thought, five scientific papers emerged from this drawer that would revolutionise the laws of physics. My illustrated biography of Einstein was published in If you’re interested in the impact of science on history and culture, then you certainly can’t ignore Einstein. Over half a century after his death, his face (and unruly hair) are still synonymous with genius. He never courted fame and unlike many scientists he was not interested in positions of power and influence, though many
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Albert Einstein—Italian Memories
Overview
- Authors:
- Sandra Linguerri
Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Raffaella Simili (deceased)
Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- For the first time the correspondence and the lectures of Albert Einstein during his stay in Italy
- Demonstrates the anti-fascist commitment of Albert Einstein
- Illustrates the debate on relativity in the international journal “Scientia”
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About this book
This book is dedicated to Einstein’s personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life. It collects together a wealth of historical documentation including the letters in which Einstein recalls having lived as a young man with his family in Lombardy, Pavia and Milan; the texts of three lectures delivered by Einstein in Italian in
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Genius, refugee, Casanova, high school dropout. Albert Einstein contained multitudes, as TLS science editor Samuel Graydon reveals in his unique biography Einstein In Time And Space.
His name today is shorthand for genius. But Albert Einstein was also a refugee, a rebel, a Casanova, a pacifist and a high school dropout.
In his unique biography Einstein In Time And Space, TLS science editor Samuel Graydon brings one of the last century’s most iconic and influential figures back to life, from escaping the Nazis and his lost daughter to declining the presidency of Israel and attempting to cheer up his parrot by telling jokes.
Buy a copy of Einstein In Time and Space by Samuel Graydon from Blackwells.
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About the speakers:
Samuel Graydon is the science editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and poetry and w