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'Subtle is the Lord...' The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein ABRAHAM PAIS Rockefeller University OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

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XII The last known picture of Einstein, taken in March 1955, in front of 112 Mercer Street. (Einstein Archive, Courtesy United P ...

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'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' So Einstein once wrote to explain his personal creed: 'A ...

Foreword The world of science is greatly fortunate that a theoretical physicist of the distinction of Abraham Pais should have d ...

viii FOREWORD neglect Einstein's personal side—and an interesting picture of Einstein the man indeed comes through—the real stre ...

FOREWORD IX the Patent Office in Bern, and producing several epoch-making papers? What about Einstein's relation to quantum mech ...

X FOREWORD not so reliable. One must bear in mind that although Einstein was an able mathematician, his profound natural gifts l ...

To the Reader Turn to the table of contents, follow the entries in italics, and you will find an almost entirely nonscientific b ...

Xll TO THE READER with the caption, 'The science and the life of Albert Einstein.' This picture with its entries and its arrows ...

TO THE READER Xlll On references Each chapter has its own set of references, which are marked in the text by a square bracket co ...

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Contents (Entries in italics are almost entirely biographical) I INTRODUCTORY Purpose and plan 5 2. Relativity theory and quant ...

XVI CONTENTS HI RELATIVITY, THE SPECIAL THEORY 'Subtle is the Lord ...' 111 (a) The Michelson-Morley experiment 111 (b) The pre ...

1. The crisis. 2. November the fourth. 3. November the eleventh. CONTENTS XV The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration (a) From ...

XV111 CONTENTS (c) The fifth dimension 329 Kaluza and Oskar Klein. 2. Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein theory. Addenda. 4. Two opt ...