My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy.MY EINSTEIN: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy JOHN BROCKMAN Biographical pages for John Brockman:
Einstein was one of the most influential physicists ever and one of the most famous figures of the 20th century. This book is a collection of musings and memories by 24 theoretical and experimental physicists, cosmologists, science historians, and science journalists about this legendary man and his ideas. Contributors include science editor Roger Highfield, who provides insights into Einstein's personal life, physicist John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein's vision of a unified field theory. , who describes his personal contacts with Einstein, writer Charles Seife, who details Einstein's attempts to disprove disprove, v to refute or to prove false by affirmative evidence to the contrary. quantum theory quantum theory, modern physical theory concerned with the emission and absorption of energy by matter and with the motion of material particles; the quantum theory and the theory of relativity together form the theoretical basis of modern physics. , and physicist Richard Muller, who discusses Einstein's contributions to our understanding of time. Pantheon, 2006, 259 p., hardcover, $25.00. |
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