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Series ForewordPrologue: Why Einstein?TimelineChapter 1 "It Is a Known Fact That I Was Born..."Chapter 2 Training the MindChapter 3 To Love and to WorkChapter 4 The Physics of the "Year of Miracles," 1905Chapter 5 Academic Life in SwitzerlandChapter 6 The Early Berlin Years: War and PacifismChapter 7 The Road to General RelativityChapter 8 The Later Berlin Years: Postwar Turmoil and the Rise of HitlerChapter 9 On the Road AgainChapter 10 Coming to AmericaChapter 11 Final Years of an Enfant TerribleChapter 12 Einstein the Experimenter

Series ForewordPrologue: Why Einstein?TimelineChapter 1 "It Is a Known Fact That I Was Born..."Chapter 2 Training the MindChapter 3 To Love and to WorkChapter 4 The Physics of the "Year of Miracles," 1905Chapter 5 Academic Life in SwitzerlandChapter 6 The Early Berlin Years: War and PacifismChapter 7 The Road to General RelativityChapter 8 The Later Berlin Years: Postwar Turmoil and the Rise of HitlerChapter 9 On the Road AgainChapter 10 Coming to AmericaChapter 11 Final Years of an Enfant TerribleChapter 12 Einstein the ExperimenterEpilogue: Einstein's LegacyAppendix: The Story of Einstein's Famous BrainBibliographyIndexVocabulary

Albert Einstein remains one of most famous scientists in world history. His image is instantly recognizable by even the most scientifically uninformed person-- for many people, Einstein personifies genius. But who was Einstein really? What was he like as a person? What did his science actually mean? This fresh biography of Albert Einstein provides students and general readers a concise,accessible introduction to the life and science of this revolutionary man. Underneath his genius,Einstein was an ordinary person, with human frailties and weaknesses, but also with charm, modesty,a wry sense of humor, and idiosyncrasies. Readers will understand why he was named the "Person of the Century."

作者简介：　　ALICE CALAPRICE was senior editor at Princeton University Press for over 20 years, specializing in editing the sciences. She was in charge of editing and production of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and was administrator of the series' accompanying translation project. She is the author of several books on Einstein, including The Quotable Einstein.