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Einstein : a centenary volume / edited by A.P. French.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QC16.E5 E37
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Physicists--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- An assessment of Einstein's life and works featuring selections from his writings and his contributions to science and peace.
- Contents:
- Part I. Reminiscences. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 / C.P. Snow
- Excerpts from a memoir / Maurice Solovine
- Einstein's friendship with Michele Besso / P. Speziali
- My meeting with Einstein at the Solvay Conference of 1927 / Louis de Broglie
- Reminiscences of Einstein / L.L. Whyte
- Memoir / John A. Wheeler
- Anecdotes / Philipp Frank
- Memoir / Edward Teller
- Einstein / Philippe Halsman
- Reminiscence / George Gamow
- Memoir / Ernst G. Straus
- Memoir / Eugene P. Wigner
- An Einstein anecdote / John G. Kemeny
- Einstein, Newton, and success / A. Pais
- Conversations with Albert Einstein / Robert S. Shankland
- Einstein and Newton / I.B. Cohen
- A tribute / Pablo Casals
- On Albert Einstein / J.R. Oppenheimer
- Part II. Einstein and his work
- Einstein-a condensed biography
- Einstein and the birth of special relativity / Silvio Bergia
- The story of general relativity / A.P. French
- Relativity theory and gravitation / Hermann Bondi
- The problem / Eric M. Rogers
- The solution / I.B. Cohen
- Einstein and the development of quantum physics / Martin J. Klein
- Ẁhat, precisely, is "thinking"?' Einstein's answer / Gerald Holton.
- Einstein, science and culture / Boris Kuznetsov
- Einstein and world affairs / A.P. French
- Einstein and Zionism / Gerald E. Tauber
- Einstein and the academic establishment / Martin J. Klein
- Einstein and education / Arturo Loria
- Philosophical concepts of space and time / Herbert Hörz
- Einstein on postage stamps / E.J. Burge
- Approaches to the teaching of special relativity / Geoffrey Dorling
- Part III. Einstein's Letters. Einstein writes to his best friend / P. Speziali
- Letter to Maurice Solovine, 7 May 1952
- Exchange of letters with Niels Bohr
- Letters to Max Born
- Part IV Einstein's Writings
- On the electrodynamics of moving bodies
- Geometry and experience
- The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers and the so-called Baer's Law
- Excerpts from Ideas and opinions
- Notes on the origin of the general theory of relativity
- On the method of theoretical physics
- On education
- An elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 323).
- Includes indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Einstein.
- ISBN:
- 0674242300
- 9780674242302
- 0674242319
- 9780674242319
- OCLC:
- 4492679
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