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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Einstein by Walter Isaacson A flat-footed hero. In 2005, astronomers and cosmologists celebrated - in style - the 100th anniversary of their annus mirabilis: 1905. This was the year in which Albert Einstein wrote a set of scientific papers, including one containing the equation E=mc2 that changed our understanding of the universe and became the cornerstones of quantum mechanics and general relativity - the twin intellectual pinnacles of the 20th century. Not bad for a 26-year- old patent office clerk. You can therefore understand what all the fuss was about. Journals, biographies, exhibitions, even plays and operas, were produced to mark the centenary. Every utterance, every scrap of paper produced by the great man was examined and debated in 2005. Nothing, surely, could have been left out, you would have thought. Certainly, another telling of Einstein's life story, only a couple of years later, must surely seem unnecessary and ambitious. Yet Isaacson, a former chief executive of CNN and biographer of both Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin, has triumphed over expectation, producing a thorough exploration of his subject's life, a skilful piece of scientific literature and a thumping good read. According to Isaacson, we should regard Einstein not as an august scientific priest, but 'as a rebel with reverence for the harmony of nature', a scientist who rated imagination far higher than knowledge and an individual whose motto, at least in his early years, was 'Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel.' On this last point, Einstein was probably misguided. Yes, he had an insolent streak, no one could doubt that, but it cost him dearly, though not without long-term beneficial consequences. Having displayed 'a sassy attitude' at the Zurich Polytechnic, where he studied physics, Einstein was his year's only graduate not to be offered a job. So he spent months applying unsuccessfully for academic posts across Europe. 'I will soon have graced every physicist from the North Sea to the southern tip of Italy with my offer,' he wrote mournfully on one occasion. He was even rejected by the Swiss army for having flat feet and varicose veins. In the end, he made do with the Swiss patent office. And a good thing too, says Isaacson. 'Had he been consigned instead to the job of an assistant to a professor, he might have felt compelled to be overly cautious in challenging accepted notions.' Instead, Einstein did his day's work in a couple of hours and then sat back in his 'worldly cloister' and indulged in a merry scepticism in order to create some of the most beautiful, challenging ideas of modern science: the special theory of relativity and the idea that light behaves like particles, for example. 'Physics was to be upended, and Einstein was poised to be the one to do it,' says Isaacson. It's one of the greatest stories of modern science and to his credit and my surprise, Isaacson has done a first-rate job in telling it. This is, quite simply, a riveting read. Cookie Consent and Choices. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. You may click on “ Your Choices ” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. You can adjust your cookie choices in those tools at any time. 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Author: Walter Isaacson Original Title: Einstein Book Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 675 pages First Published in: April 10th 2007 Latest Edition: 2008 Language: English Awards: Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2008) Main Characters: Bertrand Russell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein category: biography, non fiction, science, history, science, physics, biography memoir, audiobook, biography, autobiography, autobiography, memoir, historical Formats: ePUB(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in Einstein may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Einstein by Walter Isaacson. Words like "relativity" and "quantum theory" are part of the everyday lexicon, but for nonscientists they can be baffling as well as familiar. That means a biography of Albert Einstein may seem daunting to many readers. Walter Isaacson gives you one that isn't. Isaacson is a journalist, not a scientist. He undertook the challenge of explaining Einstein's physics for a nonspecialist readership because it is challenging. Tautology intended. Despite Isaacson's admirable effort, some of the physics baffled me, a dilettante journalist for 40 years. I did not much care, however, because the nonphysics persona of Einstein (1879-1955) captivated me. The evidence shines through on hundreds of pages. One example: After moving to the United States in part to escape Nazism, Einstein ruminated on the country that welcomed him. Sometimes the ruminations seemed dark, as when he wrote a European colleague, "I must tell you honestly that in the long term I would prefer to be in Holland. Apart from the handful of really fine scholars, [the United States] is a boring and barren society that would soon make you shiver." Yet Einstein grasped perfectly that he enjoyed freedom in the United States unlike what he could enjoy anywhere else. Isaacson handles the dualities with intelligence and grace. Still, it is legitimate to ask: When a life has been subjected to the biographical treatment again and again and again, why another? Often, the answer is unconvincing, amounting to something like, "Well, I the biographer am interested in this life, I don't care how many others have gone before me, and that's explanation enough." But Isaacson's justification for a new version of an oft-told life is persuasive. First, documents from Einstein's work and private lives have become available for the first time. Second, Isaacson has labored mightily to make the science embedded in the life accessible even to those unschooled in physics. Third, Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, is a fluid writer whose narrative talents give Einstein an aura missing from many previous accounts of his life. Houston reporter goes off-script on live TV, claims to be muzzled by station What it's like to ride America’s scariest roller coaster, the Velocicoaster at Universal Orlando Opinion: Fired reporter's recordings of Fox 26 bosses are underwhelming Vince Wilfork's son charged with stealing father's Super Bowl rings from Friendswood home Gulf disturbance has increased chances of development ERCOT issues 'Conservation Warning' as temps rise Former Astros ace Dallas Keuchel still really dislikes Jeff Luhnow. As Isaacson recounts the growth and maturity of a genius, he fills the biography with psychological insights that grow organically from his intense study of the man. He tells us, for example, that "as a young student [Einstein] never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but, more important, he knew that math was the language nature uses to describe her wonders." Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book 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 mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. CHAPTER ONE THE LIGHT-BEAM RIDER. "I promise you four papers," the young patent examiner wrote his friend. The letter would turn out to bear some of the most significant tidings in the history of science, but its momentous nature was masked by an impish tone that was typical of its author. He had, after all, just addressed his friend as "you frozen whale" and apologized for writing a letter that was "inconsequential babble." Only when he got around to describing the papers, which he had produced during his spare time, did he give some indication that he sensed their significance. "The first deals with radiation and the energy properties of light and is very revolutionary," he explained. Yes, it was indeed revolutionary. It argued that light could be regarded not just as a wave but also as a stream of tiny particles called quanta. The implications that would eventually arise from this theory -- a cosmos without strict causality or certainty -- would spook him for the rest of his .