01900cam a2200289 4500 496602776 TxAuBib 20210101120000.0 080523s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780743264747 0743264746 (OCoLC)228652687 MBE MBE BAKER BTCTA NCM AU@ YDXCP TxAuBib Isaacson, Walter. Einstein : his life and universe / Walter Isaacson. 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. xxii, 675, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-564) and index. The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.--From publisher description. 20210101. Einstein, Albert 1879-1955. Einstein, Albert 1879-1955. Friends and associates. Physicists Biography. Relativity (Physics.) Unified field theories.