In a recent television commercial, Albert Einstein stands in front of a vending machine, torn between Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke. The two are molecularly similar, he points out, yet there must be a ...

Historian Walter Isaacson talked about his book, [Einstein: His Life and Universe], published by Simon and Schuster. He described the life of scientist Albert Einstein whose theories in the field ...

The biography is structured topically, with chapters devoted to Einstein's childhood and early schooling, his friendships, his physics research and how politics affected his work.

Albert Einstein is probably the world’s most famous scientist but how much about him do you really know? Here is a short biography of the father of quantum theory.

"Annus Mirabilis," or "miraculous year" is a capsule biography of Einstein folded into a "Relativity for Dummies" handbook. Its first 137 pages offer basic and lucid accounts of Einstein's ideas ...

Object Details author Bodanis, David Subject Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Contents Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought ...

Writer and futurist Bodanis (Passionate Minds) imparts fresh insight into the genius—and failures—of the 20th century’s most celebrated scientist. Einstein learned early on to follow his own ...