Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Graydon, Samuel

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography...
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Author: Samuel Graydon
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Language: English
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Graydon, Samuel

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

$45.28

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

$45.28
Author: Samuel Graydon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.

Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, how best to capture his essence?

In Einstein in Time and Space, talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon answers that question with an illuminating mosaic--99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein's contradictory and multitudinous nature. Glimpsed among these shards: a slacker who failed every subject but math, a job seeker who couldn't get hired, a lothario who courted many women, and a charmer who was the life of the party. As brilliant as he was inconsistent, Einstein was simultaneously an avid supporter of the NAACP and the fight for civil rights and someone capable of great prejudice. He was loved by many, known by few, and inspirational to a generation of young physicists. Graydon reveals every corner of Einstein's world: the false reporting that rocketed Einstein to fame nearly overnight, his effect on people he met merely in passing, even the remarkable posthumous journey of the famed physicist's brain.

An entertaining and unique story of a man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it, "this mosaic biography [is crafted with] illuminating skill, style, candor and charm."--Times Literary Supplement).

Author: Samuel Graydon
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9781982185114

About the Author
Samuel Graydon is the science editor at The Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and has been longlisted for an Alpine Fellowship. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He and his family live in Bath, UK.

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