Einstein lived here / Abraham Pais Rockefeller University, New York and Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Einstein, Albert.

Physics--History.

Physics.

Physicists--Biography.

Physicists.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 282 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1994]

Summary:

Few people have understood what Einstein has said, thought, and done, but many are hungry to know more about him. This companion volume to Abraham Pais's Subtle is the Lord... enlarges on the way Einstein was perceived by the world at large. His becoming the scientist of greatest renown ever is largely the result of attention by the media, as the author has documented by delving in newspaper and magazine archives, from 1902 to the present. We also learn of his views on religion and on philosophy, his marital problems, and his contacts with personalities ranging from John D. Rockefeller to Charlie Chaplin to Freud to Ghandi. Interviews with Einstein, as well as reports on brief comments and longer addresses by him, help to convey his vivid style of expression as well as his great talent at formulation. He wrote and spoke about pacifism, supranationalism, civil liberties, and the rights and obligation of Jews and Arabs to live together harmoniously in the Middle East. Subjects he was interested in ranged from capital punishment to vegetarianism. These essays were written from the author's special perspective: he is a physicist and he knew Einstein personally for several years. His style is accessible and nonmathematical. This book provides essential information about Einstein the human being which will fascinate and inform both the specialist and the layman.

Contents:

'In the shadow of Albert Einstein'

Reflections on Bohr and Einstein

De Broglie, Einstein, and the birth of the matter wave concept

Einstein, Newton and success

A mini-briefing on relativity, for the layman

How Einstein got the Nobel Prize

Helen Dukas, in memoriam

Samples from Die Komische Mappe

The Indian connection: Tagore and Gandhi

Einstein on religion and philosophy

Einstein and the press: Introduction; 1902-19; November 1919: Einstein becomes a world figure; What caused Einstein's mass appeal?; The early nineteen-twenties; First journey to the United States and Britain; A trip to France; The visit to the Orient; The visit to the Holy Land; Travels to South America; Political involvements: the German years; More varia, 1928-32; In which Einstein finally leaves Europe for good; Arrival in the United States; 1933-39: Einstein's first American years in the limelight; About nuclear fission and atomic weapons; and, of course, more varia; The final decade. Einstein and the Atomic Age.

Notes:

"This book is a companion volume to my 'Subtle is the Lord' (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982), but not its sequel."--To the Reader.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0198539940 :

OCLC:

28721373