Einstein (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald W. Clark
- First Published: 1971
- Time of Work: 1879–1955
- Setting: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric, Elsa Einstein, Max Planck, Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Lorentz, Chaim Weizmann, Niels Bohr, Leo Szilard
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, World War II, Germany or German people, Atomic bomb, Biography, Zionism, Pacifism, Physics or physicists, Quantum theory, Relativity
- Locales: United States, Germany, Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia
Forms and Content
A biography of Albert Einstein presents a challenge to the biographer: There are vast untapped archives, many specialized works, the recollections of associates, other biographies, popularizations, and picture books. In Einstein: The Life and Times, Ronald Clark responds to the challenge by utilizing a wide range of archival materials and fashioning the first full and balanced biography from them. This is a big book, comprising more than six hundred pages of text and nearly one hundred pages of bibliography, notes, and index. There are also...
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