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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/394650 Title: Einstein : his life and times Author: Philipp Frank; George Rosen; Shuichi Kusaka Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1947. OCLC:394650

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Einstein : his life and times

Author:	Philipp Frank; George Rosen; Shuichi Kusaka
Publisher:	New York : A.A. Knopf, 1947.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein's colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize-winner.
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. Einstein, his life and times. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1947 (OCoLC)608830036
Named Person:	Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein
Material Type:	Biography, Juvenile audience
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Philipp Frank; George Rosen; Shuichi Kusaka Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	394650
Notes:	Cover title: E-mc². "First edition."
Description:	xi, 298, xii p., 1 l. : pl., ports., diagr. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Einstein's youth and training -- Conceptions of the physical world before Einstein -- Beginning of a new era in physics -- Einstein at Prague -- Einstein at Berlin -- The general theory of relativity -- Einstein as a public figure -- Travels through Europe, America, and Asia -- Development of atomic physics -- Political turmoil in Germany -- Einstein's theories as political weapons and targets -- Einstein in the United States.
Responsibility:	by Philipp Frank ; translated from a German manuscript by George Rosen, edited and revised by Shuichi Kusaka.

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Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein's colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize-winner.

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