Overbye, Dennis. Einstein in love; a scientific romance.Penguin. 416p. notes. bibliog. index. c2000. 0-14-100221-2. $15.00. A This New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Notable Book of the Year is a fascinating look at how Einstein the fallible fal·li·ble adj. 1. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible. 2. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses. man became Einstein the superhuman su·per·hu·man adj. 1. Above or beyond the human; preternatural or supernatural. 2. Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience: "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery" icon. There's as much science as exploration of Einstein's problematic first marriage and the parts each played in the development of the man and scientist. Subtitled "A Scientific Romance
Scientific romance is a bygone name for what is now commonly known as science fiction. ," the romance is as much about Albert and science as Albert and his young scientist bride. How great people became great is always a wonderful subject for young people. This book is clearly written and scrupulously researched, but it is not an easy book to dip into dip into Verb 1. to draw upon: he dipped into his savings 2. to read passages at random from (a book or journal) Verb 1. for research. A must read for teachers of physics, a potential read for sophisticated secondary school students. Readers who put in the time will learn a great deal about how 20th-century physics developed and the lives of some of the scientists who made it happen. Daniel J. Levinson, History & English Teacher, Thayer Acad., Braintree, MA |
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