Einstein : A to Z /
Fox, Karen C.
Einstein : A to Z / Karen C. Fox , Aries Keck. - Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004. - x, 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-301) and index.
Absentmindedness 3 --
Anti-Semitism 4 --
Arms Race 8 --
Atomic Bomb 9 --
Awards 16 --
Beauty and Equations 17 --
Besso, Michele 18 --
Black Holes 21 --
Bohr, Niels Henrik David 25 --
Books about Einstein 30 --
Born, Max 33 --
Bose-Einstein Condensate 34 --
Brain 36 --
Brownian Motion 39 --
Career 41 --
Causality 44 --
Childhood 46 --
Children 49 --
Clothes 58 --
Communism 59 --
Correspondence 62 --
Cosmological Constant 63 --
Cosmology 65 --
Curie, Marie 68 --
Death 70 --
de Sitter, Willem 72 --
Dukas, Helen 74 --
E = mc² 76 --
Eddington, Sir Arthur 79 --
Education 82 --
Ehrenfest, Paul 85 --
Einstein, Elsa Lowenthal 88 --
Einstein, Mileva Maric 93 --
Einstein Field Equations 100 --
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument 101 --
Einstein Ring 106 --
Einstein Tower 107 --
Einsteinium 108 --
Electrodynamics 108 --
Ether 110 --
FBI 113 --
Freud, Sigmund 116 --
Friedmann, Alexander 117 --
Germany 119 --
God 124 --
Gravitation 126 --
Gravitational Waves 128 --
Grossmann, Marcel 129 --
Hair 131 --
Heisenberg, Werner Karl 132 --
Hidden Variables 137 --
Hilbert, David 138 --
Hitler, Adolf 141 --
Inventions 142 --
Israel 144 --
Japan 146 --
Jokes about Einstein 148 --
Judaism 149 --
Kaluza-Klein Theory 151 --
League of Nations 153 --
Lemaitre, Georges 154 --
Lenard, Philipp 156 --
Lorentz, Hendrik 158 --
Mach, Ernst 161 --
Mathematics 164 --
McCarthyism 166 --
Michelson-Morley Experiment 167 --
Millikan, Robert 171 --
Miracle Year 174 --
Monroe, Marilyn 179 --
Mysticism 179 --
Myths and Misconceptions 181 --
Nazism 184 --
Newton, Isaac 188 --
Nobel Prize in Physics 190 --
Olympia Academy 195 --
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 197 --
Pacifism 199 --
Parents 202 --
Patent Office 205 --
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst 207 --
Photochemistry 209 --
Photoelectric Effect 210 --
Photons 213 --
Pipe 215 --
Planck, Max 216 --
Poincare, Henri 220 --
Popular Works 222 --
Positivism 223 --
Princeton 226 --
Quantum Mechanics 230 --
Reference Frames 237 --
Relativity, General Theory of 239 --
Relativity, Special Theory of 247 --
Religion 255 --
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 258 --
Russell-Einstein Manifesto 260 --
Schroedinger, Erwin 261 --
Solvay Conferences 265 --
Space-Time 267 --
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedictus) 268 --
Stark, Johannes 270 --
Switzerland 272 --
Thought Experiments 274 --
Time Travel 276 --
Twin Paradox 279 --
Uncertainty Principle 280 --
Unified Theory 282 --
United States 284 --
Violin 288 --
Wave-Particle Duality 289 --
Women, Einstein and 291 --
Wormholes 293 --
Zionism 295
Albert Einstein was the twentieth century's most celebrated scientist - a man who developed the theory of relativity, revolutionized physics, and became an iconic genius in the popular imagination. Now, in the first book of its kind, Einstein A to Z provides a vibrant overview of Time magazine's Man of the Century and his remarkable achievements, with over one hundred lively, informative essays that explain and
0471466743 (pbk.)
2004003016
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists--Biography.
QC16.E5 / F68 2004
530.092 B / F.K.E.
Einstein : A to Z / Karen C. Fox , Aries Keck. - Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004. - x, 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-301) and index.
Absentmindedness 3 --
Anti-Semitism 4 --
Arms Race 8 --
Atomic Bomb 9 --
Awards 16 --
Beauty and Equations 17 --
Besso, Michele 18 --
Black Holes 21 --
Bohr, Niels Henrik David 25 --
Books about Einstein 30 --
Born, Max 33 --
Bose-Einstein Condensate 34 --
Brain 36 --
Brownian Motion 39 --
Career 41 --
Causality 44 --
Childhood 46 --
Children 49 --
Clothes 58 --
Communism 59 --
Correspondence 62 --
Cosmological Constant 63 --
Cosmology 65 --
Curie, Marie 68 --
Death 70 --
de Sitter, Willem 72 --
Dukas, Helen 74 --
E = mc² 76 --
Eddington, Sir Arthur 79 --
Education 82 --
Ehrenfest, Paul 85 --
Einstein, Elsa Lowenthal 88 --
Einstein, Mileva Maric 93 --
Einstein Field Equations 100 --
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument 101 --
Einstein Ring 106 --
Einstein Tower 107 --
Einsteinium 108 --
Electrodynamics 108 --
Ether 110 --
FBI 113 --
Freud, Sigmund 116 --
Friedmann, Alexander 117 --
Germany 119 --
God 124 --
Gravitation 126 --
Gravitational Waves 128 --
Grossmann, Marcel 129 --
Hair 131 --
Heisenberg, Werner Karl 132 --
Hidden Variables 137 --
Hilbert, David 138 --
Hitler, Adolf 141 --
Inventions 142 --
Israel 144 --
Japan 146 --
Jokes about Einstein 148 --
Judaism 149 --
Kaluza-Klein Theory 151 --
League of Nations 153 --
Lemaitre, Georges 154 --
Lenard, Philipp 156 --
Lorentz, Hendrik 158 --
Mach, Ernst 161 --
Mathematics 164 --
McCarthyism 166 --
Michelson-Morley Experiment 167 --
Millikan, Robert 171 --
Miracle Year 174 --
Monroe, Marilyn 179 --
Mysticism 179 --
Myths and Misconceptions 181 --
Nazism 184 --
Newton, Isaac 188 --
Nobel Prize in Physics 190 --
Olympia Academy 195 --
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 197 --
Pacifism 199 --
Parents 202 --
Patent Office 205 --
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst 207 --
Photochemistry 209 --
Photoelectric Effect 210 --
Photons 213 --
Pipe 215 --
Planck, Max 216 --
Poincare, Henri 220 --
Popular Works 222 --
Positivism 223 --
Princeton 226 --
Quantum Mechanics 230 --
Reference Frames 237 --
Relativity, General Theory of 239 --
Relativity, Special Theory of 247 --
Religion 255 --
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 258 --
Russell-Einstein Manifesto 260 --
Schroedinger, Erwin 261 --
Solvay Conferences 265 --
Space-Time 267 --
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedictus) 268 --
Stark, Johannes 270 --
Switzerland 272 --
Thought Experiments 274 --
Time Travel 276 --
Twin Paradox 279 --
Uncertainty Principle 280 --
Unified Theory 282 --
United States 284 --
Violin 288 --
Wave-Particle Duality 289 --
Women, Einstein and 291 --
Wormholes 293 --
Zionism 295
Albert Einstein was the twentieth century's most celebrated scientist - a man who developed the theory of relativity, revolutionized physics, and became an iconic genius in the popular imagination. Now, in the first book of its kind, Einstein A to Z provides a vibrant overview of Time magazine's Man of the Century and his remarkable achievements, with over one hundred lively, informative essays that explain and
0471466743 (pbk.)
2004003016
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists--Biography.
QC16.E5 / F68 2004
530.092 B / F.K.E.