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English
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The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany and education in Switzerland through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first even though this means placing her life in grave danger.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Albert Einstein shares critical insights into both the genius and hubris of modern physics, linking Einstein's popular downfall through the final decades of his life to the same imagination and self-confidence that ignited his early successes.
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Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author behind My Weird School: a quirky new biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high school dropout, and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college? Or that when he died, his brain and eyeballs were removed from his body? Ever wondered why his hair looked so wild? Siblings Paige and Turner do-and they've collected some of...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
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"A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of . . . the current challenging situation in physics." — Wall Street Journal
When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schröger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled...
When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schröger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled...
16) Albert Einstein
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
A biography of the great scientist, for very young readers, focusing on his boyhood during which he seemed so different from other children.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the renowned physicist, from his privileged childhood to his early struggles to develop the theory of relativity, and his eventual recognition as one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.
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