Einstein : a life, Denis Brian

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Einstein : a life, Denis Brian

Title remainder

a life

Statement of responsibility

Denis Brian

Instantiates

• Einstein : a life

Publication

• New York, N.Y., J. Wiley, c1996

Bar code

• 31223042568387
• 31223042568395

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references(p. 481-489) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• 5.
• Seeking a position
• 6.
• The schoolteacher
• 7.
• Expectant father
• 8.
• Private lessons
• 9.
• The Patent Office
• 1.
• 10.
• The Olympia Academy
• 11.
• The Special Theory of Relativity
• 12.
• "The happiest thought of my life"
• 13.
• To Prague and back
• 14.
• The war to end all wars
• Childhood and youth
• 15.
• In the spotlight
• 16.
• Danger signals
• 17.
• Einstein discovers America
• 18.
• The Nobel Prize
• 19.
• The Uncertainty Principle
• 2.
• 20.
• The perfect patient
• 21.
• The Unified Field Theory
• 22.
• On the international lecture circuit
• 23.
• Einstein in California
• 24.
• Weighing options
• First romance
• 25.
• Einstein the refugee
• 26.
• A new life in Princeton
• 27.
• Settling in
• 28.
• Family matters
• 29.
• Politics at home and abroad
• 3.
• 30.
• World War II and the threat of fission
• 31.
• The race for the bomb
• 32.
• Einstein goes to war
• 33.
• The atomic bomb
• 34.
• Toward a Jewish state
• To Zurich and the Polytechnic
• 35.
• The birth of Israel
• 36.
• The FBI targets Einstein
• 37.
• The communist witch-hunt
• 38.
• Conversations and controversies
• 39.
• Einstein's mercy plea for the Rosenbergs
• 4.
• 40.
• The Oppenheimer affair
• 41.
• The last interview
• 42.
• Einstein's legacy
• Appendix.
• Einstein's brain
• Marriage plans

Dimensions

25 cm

Extent

xiv, 509 p.

Isbn

9780471114598

Isbn Type

(cloth : acid free paper)

Lccn

95012075

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

• 1543700
• 1543700

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32236006