EINSTEIN: A Hundred Years of Relativity

By Andrew Robinson

In Association with The Albert Einstein Archives, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Palazzo Editions is pleased to announce the publication of

Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity

ISBN: 0954510348
Hardcover
256 pages

Eleven essays augment Andrew Robinson's central and cohesive text, written by major scientists and public figures: Freeman Dyson, Stephen Hawking, João Magueijo, Steven Weinberg, Philip Anderson, Robert Schulmann, Philip Glass, Max Jammer, Sir Joseph Rotblat, I. Bernard Cohen and Sir Arthur C. Clarke. The book is fully illustrated with Einstein’s personal photographs and private papers from his Archive in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1905, an unknown 26-year-old patent clerk in Switzerland formulated two of the most revolutionary scientific concepts of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum theory, and unveiled the most famous equation in science, E=mc².

Albert Einstein's work in that miraculous year overthrew the prevailing Newtonian worldview, and forever altered our understanding of space, time, energy, matter and light. Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson shows in this authoritative, accessible, illustrated biography. The book presents clearly the beautiful simplicity at the heart of Einstein's greatest discoveries, and explains how his ideas have continued to influence scientific developments. His humanitarian role in navigating the politics of WW2 and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, global peace and nuclear weapons is covered, and the book also discusses his life and activities outside science, his love of music, his troubled family life and his encounters with famous contemporaries such as Gandhi, Chaplin and Roosevelt.