A fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines...
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Author:Lightman, Alan P.Summary: -
Author:Calle, Carlos I.Summary:Genius demystified, the Dummies way! In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at...
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Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
In 1941 the German...
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Author:Pattison, DarcySummary:Clang! Ernst Chladni's Sound Experiments by Darcy Pattison 2019 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book What if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more? In 1806, scientist Ernst Chladni (...
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Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:On a Caribbean island, we meet Felix Hoenikker, a physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He makes another discovery, that of "ice-nine" a substance that can turn the whole world into a block of ice.
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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive...
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Author:Hoffmann, BaneshSummary:Written by a friend and scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein, this remarkable study is a model of what a biography of a scientist should be. On these pages, we come to know Albert Einstein as the 'backward' child; the...
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Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high-school dropout and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college? Or that when he died, his brain and eyeballs were removed from his body? Have you ever wondered why his...
- Author:Tavares, NathanSummary:
Hayes Figueiredo is struggling to finish his documentary when handsome physicist Yusuf Hassan shows up, claiming Hayes is the key to understanding the Envisioner—a mysterious device that can predict the future. From a top-secret...
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