| Description |
189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Oxford portraits in science |
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Oxford portraits in science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world. |
| Contents |
How I did not get to meet Albert Einstein -- ch. 1. einstein when young -- Sidebar : Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem -- ch. 2. The miracle year -- Sidebar : a short history of light theory -- ch. 3. The strange story of the quantum -- Sidebar : how cavity, or blackbody, radiation became a pivotal point in physics -- Sidebar : light quanta -- ch. 4. Professor Einstein's happiest thought -- Sidebar : what makes a geometry Euclidean? -- ch. 5. Einstein's cosmology -- Ch. 6. The stranger story of the quantum -- Sidebar : how to detect crank physics -- ch. 7. 112 Mercer Street -- ch. 8. Einstein's legacy -- Coda : how I did get to see Einstein -- appendix. The Michelson-Morley experiment. |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
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Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Physicists.
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| ISBN |
0195092759 library |
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