Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive
scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was
a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both
professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His
biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with
personal recollections from their years of acquaintance,
illuminating the man through the development of his scientific
thought. Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of
relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to
quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound
transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn
of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also
fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest
in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of
great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkable volume, written
by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a
timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of
twentieth-century science.
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