![]() ![]() ![]() Hyperlinks: Links to selected webpages have been added that were current as of September 2008. (The more recent 2007 detailed biography by Walter Isaacson is an excellent complement to this scientific history, as it is a more thorough review of the man's life in general, but is not as informative about the math and physics.) The men whose discoveries preceded Einstein's, along with his contemporaries and competitors are well laid out, including Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Gustav Kirchoff, Ludwig Boltzmann, Ernst Mach, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Marcel Grossman, David Hilbert, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Louis de Broglie, Paul Dirac, Max Born, Karl Schwarzschild, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arthur Compton, etc. It is also not a tell all about his personal life. Overall impression: A fine and erudite overview of the scientificĭiscoveries and intellectual development of Einstein (including some of theĪrcane mathematics that is well beyond my abilities) by a physicist and contemporary who knewĮinstein well at Princeton during the last decade of Einstein's life. ![]() Acknowledgement: This work has been only partially and sketchily summarized here, using theġ983 Oxford University Press paperback edition. ![]()
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