Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent Jewish family in ...

"Originally published in Germany as Albert Einstein : eine Biographie by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993"--T.p. verso.

Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought of my life." Interlude one. The romance of many dimensions ; Glimpsing a solution ...

Albert Einstein's science was remarkable in its purity and its simplicity. Unaided, and also unimpeded, by the machinery of modern science -- foundation grants, research assistants, supercomputers, ...