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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who... show more



Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics, and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the atomic age.

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Birth date: March 14, 1879
Died: April 18, 1955
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Philosophy, Physics, Science
Albert Einstein's Books
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever - John Updike, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Conrad, Ibn Warraq, Martin Gardner, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, A.C. Grayling, Pe Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein, Nigel Calder The World As I See It - Albert Einstein Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican - Galileo Galilei, Stephen Jay Gould, Stillman Drake, Albert Einstein, John L. Heilbron The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta - Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein, Sonja Bargmann Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words - Albert Einstein Einstein's Universe - Nigel Calder, Albert Einstein Essays in Humanism - Albert Einstein The Universe and Dr. Einstein - Lincoln Barnett, Albert Einstein Selections from The Principle of Relativity - Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein The Principle of Relativity (Books on Physics) - Albert Einstein, H. Minkowski, Francis A. Davis The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures... The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, 1921 - Albert Einstein, John Gahan Fie Einsteins Originaltext zur Relativitätst... Einsteins Originaltext zur Relativitätstheorie - Albert Einstein The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein 1: The Early Years 1879-1902 - Albert Einstein Relativity: The Special and General Theory [ILLUSTRATED] - Albert Einstein, Robert W. Lawson Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon i... Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy-Content? - Albert Einstein Religion and Science - Albert Einstein Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics - Max Jammer, Albert Einstein
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Mystic Wisdom (Rosicrucian Order AMORC Kindle Editions) - Harvey Spencer Lewis, Cecil A. Poole, Mahatma Gandhi, Meister Eckhart, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Ralph M. Lewis, Albert Einstein, Marcus Aurelius, Martin Luther King, Rosicrucian Order AMORC
Essays in Humanism - Albert Einstein Essays in Humanism - Albert Einstein
The Theory Of Relativity: And Other Essays - Albert Einstein
Letters to Solovine: 1906-1955 - Albert Einstein, Maurice Solovine
Essays in Humanism - Albert Einstein
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World ... Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake, Albert Einstein
L'evoluzione della fisica - Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld, A. Graziadei
Relatività. Esposizione divulgativa e scritti classici su spazio geometria fisica - Albert Einstein, Bruno Cermignani, Virginia Geymonat
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie - Albert Einstein
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Oiclid's Shelf
Oiclid's Shelf rated it 8 years ago
text A Review of Dr. Einstein's "Relativity: The Special and the General Theory"
To be clear, this is actually a "popular science" book. The fact that it was written by the creator of the theories of Relativity helps because Einstein himself tries to break it down into relatively (see what I did there) bite sized pieces. To follow the book, you need to know some Math, but high...
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 9 years ago
text Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
The end of Scholasticism starts with this book. The Aristotelian thought (or as the book usually calls them The Peripatetics) and its appeal to authority and the appearance of the phenomena as truth are overturned. Sometimes what we see (such as the sun rising in the east) is not what is. I lo...
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Edward
Edward rated it 10 years ago
text Relativity
PrefaceNote to the Fifteenth Edition--RelativityAppendices:1. Simple Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation2. Minowski's Four-dimensional Space ("World")3. The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity(a) Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury(b) Deflection of Light by a Gravitati...
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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog rated it 11 years ago
text Relativity, Einstein
The aim of this book is to introduce people without a strong physics (or even scientific) background to the special and general theories of relativity - theories that Einstein was the primary developer of. Einstein assumes the reader has passes a "university matriculation exam." What that meant in t...
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Burston's Science Book Blog
Burston's Science Book Blog rated it 11 years ago
text Relativity
The aim of this book is to introduce people without a strong physics (or even scientific) background to the special and general theories of relativity - theories that Einstein was the primary developer of. Einstein assumes the reader has passed a "university matriculation exam." What that meant in t...
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