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Author Bodanis, David, author.

Title Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography / David Bodanis.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1782747~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO EINSTEIN    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO EINSTEIN    AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Victorian childhood -- Coming of age -- Annus mirabilis -- Only the beginning -- Glimpsing a solution -- Time to think -- Sharpening the tools -- The greatest idea -- True or false? -- Totality -- Cracks in the foundation -- Rising tensions -- The queen of hearts is black -- Finally at ease -- Crushing the upstart -- Uncertainty of the modern age -- Arguing with the dane -- Dispersions -- Isolation in Princeton -- The end.
Summary A portrait of Albert Einstein shares critical insights into both the genius and hubris of modern physics, linking Einstein's popular downfall through the final decades of his life to the same imagination and self-confidence that ignited his early successes.
Subject Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780544808560 (hardcover)
0544808568 (hardcover)
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