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Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein is a biography of Albert Einstein written by Abraham Pais. First published in 1982 by Oxford University Press , the book is one of the most acclaimed biographies of the scientist. [ 4 ]
Pais was perhaps best known for his biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, [11] and its companion volume, Einstein Lived Here (Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1994). [12] Subtle is the Lord won the 1983 U.S. National Book Award in Science. [13] [note 1]
As recorded on the first page of Subtle Is the Lord, Pais' biography of Einstein, Pais responded to the effect of: 'The twentieth century physicist does not, of course, claim to have the definitive answer to this question.' [9] Pais' answer was representative not just of himself and of Bohr, but of the majority of quantum physicists of that ...
Einstein, before completing his development of the general theory of relativity, found an effect which he interpreted as being evidence of Mach's principle. We assume a fixed background for conceptual simplicity, construct a large spherical shell of mass, and set it spinning in that background.
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853907-X. Einstein, A.; Grossmann, M. (1913). "Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation" [Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and of a Theory of Gravitation].
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In his 1982 Einstein biography Subtle is the Lord, [B 3] Abraham Pais argued that Poincaré "comes near" to discovering special relativity (in his St. Louis lecture of September 1904, and the June 1905 paper), but eventually he failed, because in 1904 and also later in 1909, Poincaré treated length contraction as a third independent hypothesis ...
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-192-80672-7. Parker, Barry (2003). Einstein: The Passions of a Scientist. New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1591020639. Overbye, Dennis (2001). Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance. New York: Penguin Group Inc. ISBN 978-0-141-00221-7.