Albert Einstein spent his life trying to understand how the universe was built—its hidden order, its baffling symmetries, the strange ways space and time could bend. Long before the German physicist’s ...
The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest ...
Albert Einstein's science was remarkable in its purity and its simplicity. Unaided, and also unimpeded, by the machinery of modern science -- foundation grants, research assistants, supercomputers, ...