num_pages: 704
description: Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals. All of which helped make Einstein into a rebel but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. This new biography, the first since all of Einstein's papers have become available, is the fullest picture yet of one of the key figures of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Einstein: His Life and Universe
titlecomplete: Einstein: His Life and Universe
characters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bertrand Russell, Niels Bohr, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Albert Einstein
genres: Historical, Biography, Science, Nonfiction, Physics, Audiobook, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 180307
places: Europe
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Audie Award
category: Biography/Memoir, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Biography/memoir
publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd