Einstein : A Relative History

by Donald Goldsmith; Robert Libbon

• ISBN13: 9781416504924
• ISBN10: 1416504923
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-02-22
• Publisher: I Books

Summary

Albert Einstein has been named the most important man of the twentieth century. As we look to understand the true nature of the universe with technological tools that weren't even dreamed of in his lifetime, Einstein's formulae remain our best key for dec

Author Biography

Dr. Donald Goldsmith is the winner of, among many other awards, the 1990 Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the popularization of astronomy. He won the Physics Science Writing Award in 1986 for Nemesis: The Deathstar and Other Theories of Mass Extinction. He was a consultant on the late Carl Sagan's groundbreaking PBS series Cosmos and a co-writer of the PBS series The Astronomers. His most recent works include Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets, and Connecting With the Cosmos.

Robert Libbon is a veteran writer with a degree in European history. His survey of Instant European History was published in 1996 by Fawcett Books.

Table of Contents

Einstein's Youth	2	(18)
1879 Einstein Born	15	(1)
1895 Einstein Paper Foreshadows Special Relativity	16	(4)
Einstein and Mileva	20	(20)
1897 Einstein Reads Mach's Science of Mechanics	34	(2)
1900 Einstein Publishes His First Paper	36	(4)
1905: The Wonder Year	40	(36)
1905 Einstein's Paper on the Photoelectric Effect	56	(5)
Einstein's Paper on Brownian Motion	61	(3)
Background to Einstein's Theory of Relativity	64	(3)
The Special Theory	67	(5)
The Implications of Special Relativity	72	(2)
E=mc2	74	(2)
The General Theory of Relativity	76	(68)
1907 Einstein Formulates the Principle of Equivalence	125	(3)
1909 Einstein Gives First Invited Paper	128	(3)
1911 Einstein Works on Problem of Gravity	131	(3)
1913 Einstein Learns of Nuclear Atom and Bohr's Work	134	(2)
1915 An Explanation of Gravity	136	(4)
1917 Describing the Macroverse and the Microverse	140	(4)
Einstein After 1918	144	(42)
1919 Confirmation of General Theory Announced	164	(3)
1920 Einstein meets Neils Bohr	167	(1)
Relativity Debated	168	(2)
1923 New Evidence Supports Einstein's Work	170	(1)
1924 Bose-Einstein Statistics Are Formulated	171	(2)
In Copenhagen, Quantum Mechanics Emerges	173	(2)
1925 Bertrand Russell Writes The ABC of Relativity	175	(2)
1927 Bohr Attempts to Convince Einstein	177	(4)
1927--1929 Einstein Slips Out of Physics' Mainstream	181	(1)
1929 Einstein Searches for Unifying Theory	182	(1)
1930 Einstein's Thought Experiments on Uncertainty	183	(1)
Einstein Abandons Idea of Closed, Spherical Universe	184	(2)
Einstein in America	186	(24)
1933 German Attacks on Einstein Gain Strength	198	(1)
1933--1957 Einstein Estranged from Scientific Mainstream	199	(3)
1934 Einstein Speaks in Pittsburgh on Mass and Energy	202	(1)
1939 Einstein Signs Letter to Roosevelt	203	(2)
1940 Einstein's Theories Revived in Germany	205	(1)
1941 Einstein as Consultant for the Navy	205	(1)
1945 Einstein Battles Against Uncertainty	206	(1)
Einstein Denies Knowing of Atomic Bomb	207	(1)
1949 Einstein's Final Paper	208	(2)
Further Reading	210