Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein’s colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Fran...
The Solvay Congress In the fall of 1912 Einstein entered upon his duties as professor at the Polytechnic in Zurich. He was now the pride of the institution where he had once failed to pass the entrance examination, where he had studied and met his wife, and where on graduation he had been unable ...