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1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford portraits in science |
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Oxford portraits in science.
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| Contents |
How I did not get to meet Albert Einstein -- ch. 1. einstein when young -- Sidebar : Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean theorem -- ch. 2. The miracle year -- Sidebar : a short history of light theory -- ch. 3. The 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. The 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. The Michelson-Morley experiment |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Juvenile literature
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| SUBJECT |
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 fast |
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Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Physicists
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- Physics.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
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Physicists
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Natuurkunde.
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Biographies
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Juvenile works
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429462167 |
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1429462167 |
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1280605804 |
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9781280605802 |
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9786610605804 |
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6610605807 |
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9780190282462 |
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0190282460 |
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