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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...

"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....

The video discusses the lives and contributions to physics of Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hawking.

A dramatization of the life and times of Albert Einstein, including the effects of the McCarthy hearings on his life and that of his fellow scientists and his influence on a young black girl and her family in the South.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of special relativity, this documentary with dramatised elements tells the story of how his most famous discovery, e=mc², went from being a mere set of symbols in a notebook, to a weapon of mass destruction. Explains what e=mc² actually means; how it was discovered and how it revealed that the universe contained astonishing power.

"Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century--evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics. The dominant figure in this revolutionary change was Albert Einstein. In a single year, 1905, Einstein produced breakthrough works in three areas of physics: on the size and the effects of atoms; on the quantization of the electromagnetic...

A rich portrait of the remarkable man behind the legendary scientist that also describes and contextualizes Einstein's enormous contributions to science.

This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than by opposing them. It demonstrates that time is relative rather than absolute, that high speeds affect the nature of time, and that acceleration affects speed, time, and mass. Very little mathematics is required, and 60 illustrations augment the text.