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1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations. |
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age Children |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford portraits in science
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Oxford portraits in science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world. |
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How I did not get to meet Albert Einstein -- ch. 1. einstein when young -- Sidebar : Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem -- ch. 2. Miracle year -- Sidebar : a short history of light theory -- ch. 3. Strange story of the quantum -- Sidebar : how cavity, or blackbody, radiation became a pivotal point in physics -- Sidebar : light quanta -- ch. 4. Professor Einstein's happiest thought -- Sidebar : what makes a geometry Euclidean? -- ch. 5. Einstein's cosmology -- Ch. 6. Stranger story of the quantum -- Sidebar : how to detect crank physics -- ch. 7. 112 Mercer Street -- ch. 8. Einstein's legacy -- Coda : how I did get to see Einstein -- appendix. Michelson-Morley experiment. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. |
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. |
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. |
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Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Physicists -- Biography. |
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Physicists. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Juvenile works.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929- Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 0195092759 9780195092752 (DLC) 95037500 (OCoLC)33008879 |
| ISBN |
9781429462167 (electronic book) |
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1429462167 (electronic book) |
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0195120299 |
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9780195120295 |
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0195092759 (library edition) |
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9780195092752 (library edition) |
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