Book · 1982 · Nonfiction

Subtle Is the Lord

Name: Subtle Is the Lord
Author: Abraham Pais

The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

Abraham Pais

Oxford University Press, USA · 576 pages

★ 6.5 editorial score

Einstein's physics taken as seriously as Einstein's life. Pais knew him at Princeton, could follow the mathematics, and produced the account against which every later scientific life of Einstein is measured.

Genre

Science history Biography Science

Medium

Biography

Subject

Physics Genius Science

Time

1982

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