Em claire biography of albert einstein

The universe was never quite the same again after Our understanding of space, time, matter and energy was transformed by a year-old civil servant working a hour week at a Swiss patent office. A “respectable Federal ink pisser” was how Albert Einstein described himself. He didn’t even have a PhD. But at the Patent Office, the man who had failed to find an academic job had a secret drawer – it was, he told his friends, the department of theoretical physics. And in , after six months of intensive thought, five scientific papers emerged from this drawer that would revolutionise the laws of physics. My illustrated biography of Einstein was published in If you’re interested in the impact of science on history and culture, then you certainly can’t ignore Einstein. Over half a century after his death, his face (and unruly hair) are still synonymous with genius. He never courted fame and unlike many scientists he was not interested in positions of power and influence, though many – including the presidency of Israel – were offered. Almost as much as his science, Einstein’s character has endeared him to the public. An outsider in the scientific community, unconventional in his personal life, and unafraid to speak his mind on politics, he has become the twentieth century’s pr

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Albert Einstein—Italian Memories

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Authors:

1. Sandra Linguerri

   1. Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
      

2. Raffaella Simili (deceased)

   1. Filosofia e Comunicazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
      

• For the first time the correspondence and the lectures of Albert Einstein during his stay in Italy
• Demonstrates the anti-fascist commitment of Albert Einstein
• Illustrates the debate on relativity in the international journal “Scientia”

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This book is dedicated to Einstein’s personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life. It collects together a wealth of historical documentation including the letters in which Einstein recalls having lived as a young man with his family in Lombardy, Pavia and Milan; the texts of three lectures delivered by Einstein in Italian in October in Bologna at the invitation of the mathematician Federigo Enriques, the only lectures he held in Italy; the correspondence with Enriques and other Italian intellectuals, together with the letter that Einstein sent in to the Minister of Justice Alfredo Rocco to try to avoid the infamy of the

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