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The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Retrace Einstein's thought experiments as NOVA reveals the simple but powerful ideas that reshaped our understanding of gravity, illuminating the theory of general relativity, and Einstein₂s brilliance, as never before.
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"Best known for his general theory of relativity and the famous equation linking mass and energy, E = mc², Albert Einstein had a lasting impact on the world of science, the extent of which is illuminated--along with his fascinating life and unique personality--in this lively history. In addition to learning all about Einstein's important contributions to science, from proving the existence and size of atoms and launching the field of quantum mechanics...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Drawing on long-hidden documents, love letters and biographies, Einstein's wife pieces together a partnership of extraordinary passion and intellect that led to one of the greatest theoretical breakthroughs in the twentieth century"--Container.
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4 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The show offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Beyond his groundbreaking theories of relativity, witness Einstein's struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. A ten-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 21 cm.
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"Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein grew up to be one of the greatest scientists the world...
11) Albert Einstein
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color, Dolby stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier, and Lise Meitner, whose innovative thinking helped lead to E=mc², and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
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xi, 260 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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"Exactly one hundred years ago in 1905, Albert Einstein, the best-known and most beloved scientist of the twentieth century, revolutionized our understanding of the universe with his special theory of relativity. But behind the familiar image of the lovable eccentric with the cherubic smile and nimbus of white hair, did there lurk a very different individual?
Now, fifty years after his death, this book tackles head-on many unexpected aspects of Einstein's...
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ix, 191 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
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The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong moral principles. An avowed pacifist, Einstein's mistrust of authority and outspoken social and scientific views earned him death threats from Nazi sympathizers...
18) Albert Einstein
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128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Albert Einstein, the most brilliant physicist of the twentieth century.
19) Albert Einstein
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48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
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