Einstein : a hundred years of relativity / Andrew Robinson ; in association with the Albert Einstein Archives ; with contributions by Philip Anderson [and 11 others].

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (Author)
Corporate Author: Bet ha-sefarim ha-leʼumi ṿeha-universiṭaʼi bi-Yerushalayim. Albert Einstein Archives (associated with work.)
Other Authors: Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-2020 (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edition:New edition /
Subjects:
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955.
Physicists > Biography.
General relativity (Physics)
Physicists.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The world of physics before Einstein
  • Autobiographical notes / by Albert Einstein
  • The Making of a physicist
  • A brief history of relativity / by Stephen Hawking
  • The miraculous year, 1905
  • General relativity
  • Varying c: vodka without alcohol? / by João Magueijo
  • Arguing about quantum theory
  • The search for a theory of everything
  • Einstein's search for unification / by Steven Weinberg
  • Physics since Einstein
  • Einstein's scientific legacy / by Philip Anderson
  • The most famous man in the world
  • Personal and family life
  • Einstein's love letters / by Robert Schulmann
  • Einstein and music / by Philip Glass
  • Germany, war and pacifism
  • America
  • Zionism, the Holocaust and Israel
  • Einstein on religion, Judaism and Zionism / by Max Jammer
  • Nuclear saint and demon
  • Einstein's quest for global peace / by Joseph Rotblat
  • The end of an era
  • Einstein's last interview / by I. Bernard Cohen
  • Einstein's enduring magic
  • Einstein: twentieth-century icon / by Arthur C. Clarke.