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Throughout his life, Einstein published hundreds of books and articles. [17] [217] He published more than 300 scientific papers and 150 non-scientific ones. [11] [217] On 5 December 2014, universities and archives announced the release of Einstein's papers, comprising more than 30,000 unique documents.
The only Jewish school in Munich had been closed in 1872 for want of students, and in the absence of an alternative Einstein attended a Catholic elementary school. [58] He also received Jewish religious education at home, but he did not see a division between the two faiths, as he perceived the "sameness of all religions". [ 59 ]
Einstein: His Life and Universe is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson.The biographical analysis of Albert Einstein's life and legacy was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007, and it has received a generally positive critical reception from multiple fronts, [1] [2] praise appearing from an official Amazon.com review as well as in publications such ...
A New London high schooler wrote Einstein a question about the famous scientist's special theory of relativity — and got a brief answer, in English. In 1946, a Wisconsin student wrote to Albert ...
Aug. 8—There was more to Albert Einstein than his intellect. "Einstein: A Stage Portrait," by Willard Sims, explores the lesser-known personal side of the genius. Los Alamos native and formally ...
For his 70th birthday, the scientist was visited by refugee children and given a special promise
[3] [4] Einstein is best known by the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc 2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). [5] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect ", a pivotal step in ...
Abraham Pais. Before becoming a science historian, Pais was a theoretical physicist and is said to be one of the founders of theoretical particle physics. [6] Pais knew Einstein and they developed a friendship over the last decade of Einstein's life, particularly while they were colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.