Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography

"What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don't think I've ever read a book that does this as well . . . Whenever there's a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs." --Popular Science

"Fascinating." --Forbes

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends. How did this happen? Best-selling biographer David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's life--from the skeptical, erratic student to the world's most brilliant physicist to the fallen-from-grace celebrity. An intimate biography in which "theories of the universe morph into theories of life" (Times, London), Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today--and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.

Author: David Bodanis
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/17/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781328745521
ISBN10: 132874552X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Science | History
- Science | Physics | Quantum Theory

About the Author
DAVID BODANIS taught for many years at Oxford University and has written numerous books, including E=mc2, an international bestseller that was translated into two dozen languages and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.