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Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology, and for his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. A self-pronounced pacifist, humanist, and, late in his life, democratic socialist, Einstein was also deeply concerned with the social impact of his discoveries. Much of Einsteins life is shrouded in legend. From popular images and advertisements to various works of theater and fiction, he has come to signify so many things. In Einstein: A Biography, JUrgen Neffe presents a clear and probing portrait of the man behind the myth. Unearthing new documents, including a series of previously unknown letters from Einstein to his sons, which shed new light on his role as a father, Neffe paints a rich portrait of the tumultuous years in which Einstein lived and worked. And with a background in the sciences, he describes and contextualizes Einsteins enormous contributions to our scientific legacy. Einstein, a breakout bestseller in Germany, is sure to be a classic biography of the man and proverbial genius who has been called the brain of the [twentieth] century.

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Table of Contents I am deeply grateful to the Einstein Archives at the - photo 1
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I am deeply grateful to the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. This book would not have been possible without the collegial support of the staff at both of these institutions, who made unpublished source material available to me.
I would also like to thank the Max Planck Society, especially Department 1 of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (director: Prof. Jrgen Renn), which kindly granted me the status of visiting researcher and provided expert guidance and technical support, and the staff of the Max Planck Society Archives (director: Prof. Echart Henning), also in Berlin.
I wish to extend my special thanks to the Berlin historian and journalist Jrg von Bilavsky for sharing his expertise and offering cordial and creative suggestions for improvement, and to Siegfried Grundmann, also a Berlin historian, whose comprehensive research provided me with many valuable leads and passages.
A heartfelt thank-you goes also to the staff of Rowohlt Publishers, who accompanied me on my exciting and sometimes difficult path through Einsteins life, in particular my editor Uwe Naumann, as well as Barbara Wenner of the Graf & Graf Agency in Berlin.
I would like to thank everyone who read (and improved) the manuscript as a whole or in part, especially Mathias Greffrath, Prof. Dieter Hoffmann, Dr. Arno Nehlsen, Harald Schumann, and particularly Dr. Hania Luczakas well as Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer, Dr. Peter Aufmuth,Prof. John Beckman, Prof. Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Prof. Michel Janssen, Dr. Christoph Lehner, Christian Ludwig, Prof. Jrgen Renn, Prof. Robert Schulmann, Prof. Ursula Staudinger, and Prof. Thomas Thiemann.
I am most grateful to all the readers who gave me so much advice and sent me new source material after the publication of the German edition, which was invaluable in shaping the American edition of this book, especially Prof. Peter Plesch in Newcastle under Lyme (UK), who allowed me to include previously unpublished pages from the diary of his father, Dr. Jnos Plesch.
I would like to thank my American publisher for making this book accessible to a wider, English-speaking readership. Special thanks go to Eric Chinski, my meticulous, ever-supportive, and refreshingly inquisitive editor at FSG.
Last but not least, I would like to express my deep admiration for my American translator, Shelley Frisch. Her English-language version of my book has surpassed my wildest dreams.
1. HIS SECOND BIRTH: THE FATEFUL YEAR 1919
Calaprice, 237.
The Times (London), November 7, 1919.
Letter to Pauline Einstein, September 27, 1919; CP 9, 98.
Whitehead, 1011.
The New York Times , November 10, 1919; quoted in Pais, Einstein Lived Here , 147.
Der Abend , November 3, 1919.
Letter to Pauline Einstein, November 5, 1919; CP 9, 82.
Letter to Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, March 26, 1920; CP 9, 300.
Berliner Morgenpost , November 7, 1919.
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , November 2, 1919.
Letter from Sir Arthur Eddington, December 1, 1919; CP 9, 158.
Letter from Paul Ehrenfest, November 24, 1919; CP 9, 147.
Letter to Paul Ehrenfest, December 4, 1919; CP 9, 161.
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , December 14, 1919; quoted in Rosenkranz, Albert Through the Looking Glass , 132.
Moszkowski, 1213.
Quoted in Calaprice, 41. (The English original of this book did not select this passage for inclusion; it was added to the German translation.)
Letter to Marcel Grossmann, September 12, 1920; CP 10, 271.
Letter to Max Planck, October 23, 1919; CP 9, 128.
Letter to Heinrich Zangger, early 1920; CP 9, 204.
1934; Einstein Archives 31160. Unpublished translation by Aaron Wiener.
Letter to Pauline Einstein et al., May 14, 1919; CP 9, 35.
2. HOW ALBERT BECAME EINSTEIN: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEUP OF A GENIUS
CP 1, 3.
CP 1, xviii.
Letter to C. Erlanger, March 16, 1929; Archives of the City of Ulm; quoted in Flsing, 8.
March 16, 1929; Archives of the City of Ulm; quoted in Flsing, 8.
Seelig, Albert Einstein: Leben und Werk , 399.
Quoted in Flsing, 11.
Holton/Elkana, 157.
CP 1, xviii.
CP 1, xviii.
Schlipp, 9.
Schilpp, 9.
Reiser, 27.
Letter to Heinrich Zangger, June 6, 1919; CP 9, 94 (German edition only).
Hoffmann/Dukas, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel , 4.
Vallentin, 43.
Vallentin, 44.
Vallentin, 53.
Vallentin, 44.
Gardner, 25.
Gardner, 25.
Gardner, 26.
Moszkowski, 224.
Moszkowski, 225.
Gardner, 78.
Gardner, 31.
Gardner, 32.
Seelig, Helle Zeit , 72.
Letter to Marcel Grossmann, April 14, 1901; CP 1, 165.
Letter from Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, December 30, 1895; CP 1, 11.
Draft of a letter to Philipp Frank, 1940; quoted in Flsing, 27.
Draft of a letter to Philipp Frank, 1940; quoted in Flsing, 27.
Letter to Jost Winteler, July 6, 1901; CP 1, 177.
Gardner, 119.
Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography , 7071.
Gardner, 128.
Letter from Max Born, October 13, 1920; CP 10, 291.
Letter from Michele Besso, September 18, 1932; Einstein/Besso, 286.
Probably 1932; Einstein Archives 31101. Unpublished translation by Aaron Wiener.
Letter from Elsa Einstein, before May 20, 1920; CP 10, 165.
Vallentin, 85.
Vallentin, 85.
Katia Mann, 132.
Kessler, 155.
Letter to Heinrich Zangger, May 17, 1915; CP 8, 98.
Brian, 292.
Brian, 403.
Vallentin, 36.
Schilpp, 3.
Schilpp, 9.
Schilpp, 9.
Schilpp, 15.
Letter to Caesar Koch, Summer 1895; CP 1, 6.
Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography , 13.
Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography , 14.
David Reichinstein, 40.
Quoted in Herneck, Einstein privat , 89.
Letter to Pauline Winteler, June 7, 1897; CP 1, 33.
Letter to Mileva Maric Picture 2 , December 12, 1901; CP 1, 186.
Hoffmann/Dukas, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel , 254.
Holton/Elkana, 159.
Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography , 42.
Ideas and Opinions , 225.
Ideas and Opinions , 225.
Letter to Pauline Winteler, June 7, 1897; CP 1, 33.
Out of My Later Years , 5.
Letter to N. M. Butler, April 11, 1923; quoted in Flsing, 475.
Letter to Paul Ehrenfest, October 24, 1916; CP 8, 256.
Infeld, Leben mit Einstein , 78.
Quoted in Brian, 230.
Quoted in Seelig, Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography , 15.
Brian, 146.
Letter to Heinrich Zangger, May 17, 1915; CP 8, 98.
Brod, 221.
Brod, 13.
Brod, 146.
Brod, 89.
Brod, 156.
Infeld, Leben mit Einstein , 73.
Quoted in Highfield/Carter, 244.
Quoted in Hermann, 284.
Ernst Peter Fischer, 43.
Quoted in Herneck, Einstein privat , 76.
Brod, 78.
Brod, 13.
Brod, 14.
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