Einstein from "B" to "Z"
By: John Stachel.
Series: Einstein studies ;; v. 9
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Relativity (Physics) -- History; Quantum theory -- History
Description: "John Stachel, the author of this collection of 37 published and unpublished articles on Albert Einstein, has written about Einstein and his work for over 40 years. Trained as a theoretical physicist specializing in the theory of relativity, he was chosen as the founding editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein 25 years ago, and is currently Director of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies.".

"Based on a detailed study of documentary evidence, much of which was newly discovered in the course of his work, Stachel debunks many of the old (and some new) myths about Einstein and offers novel insight into his life and work. Throughout the volume, a new, more human picture of Einstein is offered to replace the plaster saint of popular legend.

In particular, a youthful Einstein emerges from the obscurity that previously shrouded his early years, and much new light is shed on the origins of the special and general theories of relativity. Also discussed in some detail are Einstein's troubled relationship with his first wife, his friendships with other physicists such as Eddington, Bose, and Pauli, and his Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I The Human Side1; title: Albert Einstein: The Man Beyond the Myth3; title: Albert Einstein13; title: Albert Einstein: (1879-1955)19; title: The Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth21; title: Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric:; title: A Collaboration that Failed to Develop39; title: Einstein's Jewish Identity57; title: Einstein on Civil Liberty85; title: Einstein and the "Research Passion"87; title: II Editing the Einstein Papers95; title: "A Man of My Type" - Editing the Einstein Papers97; title: Introduction to the Guide to the Duplicate Einstein Archive; title: and Control Index113; title: III Surveys of Einstein's Work119; title: Introduction to Einstein: The Formative Years121; title: The Other Einstein: Einstein Contra Field Theory141; title: IV Special Relativity155; title: "What Song the Syrens Sang":; title: How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity?157; title: Einstein and Ether Drift Experiments171; title: Einstein and Michelson: The Context of Discovery; title: and the Context of Justification177; title: Einstein on the Theory of Relativity191; title: Einstein's First Derivation of Mass-Energy Equivalence; title: (with Roberto Toretti)215; title: V General Relativity223; title: Einstein's Odyssey: His Journey from Special to General Relativity. 225; title: The Genesis of General Relativity233; title: The Rigidly Rotating Disk as the "Missing Link" in the; title: History of General Relativity245; title: The First Two Acts261; title: How Einstein Discovered General Relativity:; title: A Historical Tale with Some Contemporary Morals293; title: Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912-1915301; title: Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute; title: (with Leo Corry and Jiirgen Renn)339; title: The Origin of Gravitational Lensing:; title: A Postscript to Einstein's 1936 Science Paper; title: (with Jiirgen Renn and Tilman Sauer)347; title: New Light on the Einstein-Hilbert Priority Question353; title: VI Quantum Theory365; title: Einstein and the Quantum: Fifty Years of Struggle367; title: Einstein and Quantum Mechanics403; title: Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis, or; title: Why Didn't Einstein Propose a Quantum Gas; title: a Decade-and-a-Half Earlier427; title: VII Einstein and Others445; title: Einstein and Newton447; title: Eddington and Einstein453; title: Einstein and Infeld: Seen through their Correspondence477; title: Lanczos's Early Contributions to Relativity and; title: His Relationship with Einstein499; title: Einstein and Bose519; title: Einstein and 'Zweistein'539; title: VIII Book Reviews549; title: 'Subtle is the Lord' The Science and Life of Albert Einstein; title: by Abraham Pais551; title: Albert Einstein: A Biography; title: by Albert F61sing555.