Einstein
His Life and Universe
The rebel patent clerk who rewrote physics, drawn from newly released letters that show the man behind the equations
Drawing on Einstein’s personal letters, released only in 2006, Isaacson connects the physics to the man: the impertinent student who could not get an academic job, the clerk who overturned our picture of space and time, the exile and reluctant icon. He argues that Einstein’s rebelliousness and his science were inseparable, that questioning authority was exactly what let him question Newton.
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