TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isaacson,Walter
TI  - Einstein: his life and universe 
SN  - 9781847390547
U1  - 530.092 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Einstein, Albert,
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Relativity (Physics)
KW  - Unified field theories
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index
N2  - 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 wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.--From publisher description
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