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Einstein Lived Here
AuthorAbraham Pais
CountryUnited States and United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Subject
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication date
1994
Pages282 (304 total)
ISBN978-0-19-853994-0
OCLC28721373
530.092
LC ClassQC16.E5P25
Preceded bySubtle is the Lord 

Einstein Lived Here is a collection of eleven essays and articles by Abraham Pais that was published in 1994 by Clarendon Press. The book serves as a companion volume for Pais' biography of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, which was published in 1982.

Background[edit]

Some of the articles included in the book were previously published in American Scientist in the 1980s while two sections of the book are taken directly from Subtle is the Lord.[1] The title of the book comes from a cartoon that appeared in the wake of Einstein's death.[2]

Content[edit]

  1. 'In the shadow of Albert Einstein'
  2. Reflections on Bohr and Einstein
  3. De Broglie, Einstein, and the birth of the matter wave concept
  4. Einstein, Newton, and success
  5. A mini-briefing on relativity, for the layman
  6. How Einstein got the Nobel Prize
  7. Helen Dukas, in memoriam
  8. Samples from Die Komische Mappe
  9. The Indian connection: Tagore and Gandhi
  10. Einstein on Religion and Philosophy
  11. Einstein and the press

Reception[edit]

The book was reviewed by Roger Highfield,[3] Philip Morrison,[4] and Engelbert Schücking,[5] among several others.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] The book was also reviewed in Publishers Weekly[1] and was reviewed in The New York Times by Robert Kanigel.[2]

The review in Publishers Weekly wrote that Pais is "arguably Einstein's best interpreter" and then quickly summarized the book and closed by stating: "The great figure in 20th century science that Pais depicts here seems more his own personal icon than Einstein the man."[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Nonfiction Book Review: Einstein Lived Here by Abraham Pais, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-853994-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Kanigel, Robert (18 September 1994). "Famous for Being Einstein (Published 1994)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ Highfield, Roger (5 May 1994). "Albert and his private lives". Nature. 369 (6475): 29–30. doi:10.1038/369029a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  4. ^ Morrison, Philip (1994). "Albert en Famille". Scientific American. 270 (6): 112–113. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0694-112. ISSN 0036-8733.
  5. ^ Schücking, Engelbert L. (11 January 2008). "Einstein Lived Here". Physics Today. 47 (10): 70. doi:10.1063/1.2808672. ISSN 0031-9228.
  6. ^ "Einstein Lived Here, Abraham Pais. 1994. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 282 pages. ISBN: 0-19-853994-0. $25.00:". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 27 July 2016. doi:10.1177/027046769501500128.
  7. ^ French, A. P. (1 February 1995). "Einstein Lived Here". American Journal of Physics. 63 (2): 189–190. doi:10.1119/1.17985. ISSN 0002-9505.
  8. ^ Livingston, Katherine (1994). "Review of Einstein Lived Here". Science. 264 (5165): 1617–1617. ISSN 0036-8075.
  9. ^ Melcher, Potsdam H. (1994). "Pais: Einstein lived here". Physikalische Blätter. 50 (9): 873–876. doi:10.1002/phbl.19940500920. ISSN 1521-3722.
  10. ^ Parsegian, V.Adrian (September 1995). "Review of Pais: Einstein Lived Here". Biophysical Journal. 69 (3): 1193–1194. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(95)79994-5a. PMC 1236348.
  11. ^ Shortland, Michael (1997). "Review of Einstein Lived Here". Isis. 88 (1): 156–157. ISSN 0021-1753.
  12. ^ "Books". Science News. 145 (23): 354–354. 1994. ISSN 0036-8423.
  13. ^ Peralta, Héctor Armando Durán (1996). "Einstein, el hombre: sobre "Einstein lived here", de Abraham Pais". Saber leer (98): 10–11. ISSN 0213-6449.
  14. ^ Rowe, David E. (June 2012). "Einstein and Relativity: What Price Fame?". Science in Context. 25 (2): 197–246. doi:10.1017/S026988971200004X. ISSN 0269-8897.
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