Description
It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt G edel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century science--cellular automata and superstrings.Who Got Einstein's Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities.
Author: Edward Regis
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 01/22/1988
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.98w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780201122787
ISBN10: 0201122782
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Reference | Research
Author: Edward Regis
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 01/22/1988
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.98w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780201122787
ISBN10: 0201122782
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Reference | Research
About the Author
Ed Regis, a frequent contributor to Omni magazine, is College Scholar at Western Maryland College. He is at work on a new book about extremely advanced science and technology.