His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book 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 mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. They are important revelations into Einstein's nature given that the young man who once questioned all previous scientific discovery and rebelled against scientific authority became the old man regarded as the preeminent scientific authority within his own lifetime and beyond.By the author of the acclaimed bestseller ‘Benjamin Franklin’, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. Given that Einstein's 1905 revelations are being discussed by the first 100 pages of this 600-plus-paged volume, these transformations are the bulk of the book. Isaacson has a deft touch in explaining Einstein's theories. " and four, a paper on a little something often referred to as the theory of relativity.Īs he worked to prove his theories and, as academics and the world came to embrace them, Isaacson details how Einstein softened his personal touch on a large basis, though he remained focused on his work and was often difficult to fathom within the context of his personal relationships. That is until 1905, "the miracle year," when Einstein wrote four papers: One on "radiation and the energy properties of light" a second on the "true size of atoms" a third proving "that bodies on the order of magnitude 1/1000 mm, suspended in liquids, must already perform an observable random motion that is produced by thermal motion. Einstein may have known he was a genius but, to most everyone else, he came across as brash and irritating. He would tear apart a professor's theories and work those criticisms into the same letter that he would ask him for a job.
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