Albert Einstein
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In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures available under the title...
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"Peter A. Bucky enjoyed an advantage possessed by few others beside Albert Einstein himself when he set out to give us the rare insight into the great scientist's private life, opinions, and foibles that are now folded into this most unusual volume. And rarely has anyone succeeded in capturing the personality and intimate thoughts of the renowned but very human physicist the way the author has here. Indeed, this work is a lifetime's accumulation....