Einstein

Informationen zum Autor Peter Smith regularly reviews science books for the Guardian, and has written for the Independent, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement and other journals. In 1997 he was awarded a prestigious British Academy three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, an award made each year to a handful of outstanding young scholars. He teaches at University College London where he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Science and Technology Studies Department. His first book, Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-View of Science 1780-1955, was published in 2000 and according to one reviewer 'puts much other work in so-called cultural studies to shame.' Klappentext Accessible and affordable illustrated biography Zusammenfassung Albert Einstein re-wrote the textbooks of science in 1905: physics since has been little more than a series of footnotes to the theories of a 26-year-old patent-office clerk. Einstein's science and emotional life come together in this vivid portrait of a rebellious and contradictory figure! a pacifist whose legendary equation E=mc2 opened scientists' eyes to the terrible power within every atom.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Smith, Peter D Smith, Peter D. Smith, Smith Peter D.
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2003
• EAN: 9781904341154
• ISBN: 978-1-904341-15-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Life & Times; Life & Times
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Mathematics, Physics, Biography: historical, political and military