TY - BOOK AU - Isaacson, Walter. TI - Einstein : : his life and universe SN - 9781471179389 AV - QC 16 .E5 .I83 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - London : PB - Simon & Schuster, KW - EINSTEIN, ALBERT KW - PHYSICISTS KW - UNIFIED FIELD THEORIES KW - RELATIVITY (PHYSICS) KW - FRIENDSHIP KW - QUANTUM THEORY KW - GERMANY N1 - Includes index. ; The light-beam rider.--Childhood, 1879-1896.--The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900.--The lovers, 1900-1904.--The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905.--Special relativity, 1905.--The happiest thought, 1906-1909.--The wandering professor, 1909-1914.--General relativity, 1911-1915.--Divorce, 1916-1919.--Einstein's universe, 1916-1919.--Fame, 1919.--The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921.--Nobel laureate, 1921-1927.--Unified field theories, 1923-1931.--Turning fifty, 1929-1931.--Einstein's God.--The refugee, 1932-1933.--America, 1933-1939.--Quantum entanglement, 1935.--The bomb, 1939-1945.--One-worlder, 1945-1948.--Landmark, 1948-1953.--Red scare, 1951-1954.--The end, 1955 N2 - A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance ER -