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Albert Einstein : a biography
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Albert Einstein : a biography

Author: Alice Calaprice; Trevor Lipscombe
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Series: Greenwood biographies
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
Summary: Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
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Named Person: Albert Einstein
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alice Calaprice; Trevor Lipscombe
ISBN: 0313330808 9780313330803
OCLC Number: 57208188
Description: xxiii, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "It is a known fact that I was born-- " -- Training the mind -- To love and to work -- The physics of the "year of miracles," 1905 -- Academic life in Switzerland -- The early Berlin years : war and pacifism -- The road to general relativity -- The later Berlin years : postwar turmoil and the rise of Hitler -- On the road again -- Coming to America -- Final years of an "enfant terrible" -- Einstein the experimenter.
Series Title: Greenwood biographies
Responsibility: Alice Calaprice and Trevor Lipscombe.
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Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

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