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Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe: Exhibition Catalogue and Documents, 2 Vols.

English · Hardback

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Anlässlich des 100. Jubiläums des Einsteinschen Wunderjahres 1905 wird dem wohl bedeutendsten Wissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Ausstellung in Berlin gewidmet, deren Katalog von Wiley-VCH verlegt wird.
Sowohl der Wandel historischer Weltbilder als auch die Bedingungen von Wissenschaftsentwicklung werden erklärt. Gleichzeitig wird der verschlungene Lebensweg Albert Einsteins vor dem Hintergrund der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen seiner Zeit beleuchtet. Am Schluss stehen die Auswirkungen von Einsteins Schaffen auf die Wissenschaft und Kultur der Gegenwart.

Ergänzt wird dieser Katalog durch einen bilingualen Dokumentenband. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Sammlung wissenschaftshistorischer Quellen wie Briefe, Manuskripte und Fotografien von Personen und Objekten.

List of contents

1.) World-view and discovery
Invisible forces
Wonderous metamorphoses
Demons and ghosts
Transmutation
Mass - energy conversion
The Invisible around us
Gravity and inertia
Light as invisible force
Heat
The power of the Invisible
Magnetism
Electricity
Induction
Radiation
Microwaves
Models of the cosmos
The Earth is round
Progress into Infinity
Belief in movement is shaken
Belief in space is shaken
The history of the world
2.) Einstein - his life
Physics at the end of the 19th century
Main fields of classical physics
Border problems
A childhood
The family
Childhood and adolescence in Germany and Italy
The revolution
University years in Switzerland
The Patent Office
The "Akademie Olympia"
Einstein's early works
Revolution in science
On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the creation and conversion of light
On the movement of particles suspended in resting liquids, as postulated by the molecular kinetic heat theory.
On the electrodynamics of moving bodies
Completion and Reaction
Theory of Relativity
Confirmation of the Special Theory of Relativity
The Principle of Equivalence
Curved space
The evolution of the General Theory of Relativity
Verification of the General Theory of Relativity through experiment
Cosmology
Opposition against the Theory of Relativity
Quantum Theory
Theory of Specific Heat
The controversy over the light quantum hypothesis
Theory of Stimulated Emission
Quantum theory of the atom
Quantum mechanics and Einstein's reaction
Einstein-Podolski-Rosen paradox
Einstein and politics: the First World War
A liberal leftist in the Weimar Republic
Science at the abyss
Unified field theory
Rise of the National Socialists, deprivation of citizenship and expropriation of the Einstein family
Life in exile
Assistance for emigrants
The atom bomb project
World government
The fight for civil rights
3.) Einstein's world today
Special Theory of Relativity
Michelson experiment
Sagnac effect
General Theory of Relativity
Principle of equivalence
Black holes
Gravitation Lenses
Gravitation Waves
GPS
Cosmological Constant
Hawking Radiation
Quantum Theory
Lasers
Bose-Einstein-Condensate
Einstein-Podolski-Rosen paradox and interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Unification of the theories
String Theory
Quantum Loop Theory
The goal of physics
What is science?

About the author

Professor Jürgen Renn ist "Einstein-Experte" und Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Zu seinen Arbeitsschwerpunkten zählen die Entstehung der Mechanik in der Antike, Wechselwirkungen von praktischem und theoretischem Wissen seit der Renaissance, der Übergang von der klassischen zur modernen Physik, die Entstehung der Relativitätstheorie und der Einsatz neuer Medien in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Professor Renn war Koordinator der Ausstellung 'Albert Einstein - Ingenieur des Universums', die von Mai bis September 2005 in Berlin stattfand.

Report

"Both volumes are profusely illustrated with the highest quality color photographs; the accompanying explanatory text provides a wealth of detail about Einstein himself...essential." ( CHOICE , November 2006)
"This volume is a thoroughly enjoyable ramble through the scientific, societal, historical and political landscape that formed both the man and his work." ( MAA Reviews , February 17, 2006)

Product details

Assisted by Jürge Renn (Editor), Jürgen Renn (Editor)
Publisher Wiley-VCH
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2005
 
EAN 9783527405718
ISBN 978-3-527-40571-8
No. of pages 460
Dimensions 224 mm x 285 mm x 59 mm
Weight 3666 g
Sets Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe
Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries

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