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ISBN-10: 1155534875
ISBN-13: 9781155534879
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Albert Einstein, Emile Durkheim, Stephen Jay Gould, Milton Friedman, Carl Sagan, Isaiah Berlin, Gerald Finzi, Alan Dershowitz, Sarah Silverman, Larry King, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Andrew Breitbart, Arthur Rubinstein, Harold Ramis, Walter Kaufmann, David Berlinski, Sherwin Wine, Ezra Klein, Studs Terkel, John Safran, Bruno Kreisky, Gregory Henriquez, Pedro Friedeberg, Jacob Bronowski, Lawrence M. Krauss, A. J. Jacobs, David Usher, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Steve Berman, Tal Ben-Shahar. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical… physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. 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." The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as ...