Einstein Albert - Einstein: his life and universe

Praise for Einstein

An illuminating delight This is a warm, insightful, affectionate portrait with a human and immensely charming Einstein at its core. A wonderfully rounded portrait of the ever-surprising Einstein personality.

Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Once again Walter Isaacson has produced a most valuable biography of a great man about whom much has already been written. It helps that he has had access to important new material. He met the challenge of dealing with his subject as a human being and describing profound ideas in physics. His biography is a pleasure to read and makes the great physicist come alive.

Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The Quark and the Jaguar

Brilliant An illuminating biography of Einstein.

Vanity Fair

This book does an amazing job getting the science right and the man revealed.

Sylvester James Gates Jr., the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland

A triumph Isaacson understands Einstein and explains his discoveries while sharing riveting personal detail.

People (4 stars)

Isaacson has given us a life, not just a mind, perhaps the greatest in the twentieth century, but also a personality, as imperfect and fallible as all the rest of us. This unique combination of sheer brilliance and human uncertainty makes this one of the great biographies of our time.

Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

A narrative masterpiece This is a great read by a great writer about a great mana biographical perfect storm.

Michael Shermer, The New York Sun

Isaacson has a lovely sense of the poetry of physics. Utterly absorbing.

Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

This book will be widely and deservedly admired. It is excellently readable and combines the personal and the scientific aspects of Einsteins life in a graceful way.

Gerald Holton, the Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University and author of Einstein, History, and Other Passions

An excellent book Isaacsons biography is well researched and contains a surprising amount of new information about its enigmatic subject. Einstein emerges as a flesh-and-blood figurea human with good qualities and flaws. Even Einstein scholars will likely find here facts they hadnt known. A major and authoritative work on one of the most interesting figures in the history of science.

Amir D. Aczel, The Boston Globe

Isaacson has admirably succeeded in weaving together the complex threads of Einsteins personal and scientific life to paint a superb portrait.

Arthur I. Miller, author of Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Havoc Causes

Delightful The most comprehensive English-language biography of Einstein for a general readership Isaacson weaves it all into a seamless narrative.

Sharon Begley, Newsweek

Isaacson has written a crisp, engaging, and refreshing biography, one that beautifully masters the historical literature and offers many new insights into Einsteins work and life.

Diana Kormos Buchwald, the general editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and professor of history at Caltech

Expansive in scope and exhaustively researched. Isaacson skillfully sheds new light on Einsteins personality. Superb.

Bob Van Brocklin, The Sunday Oregonian

With unmatched narrative skill, Isaacson has managed the extraordinary feat of preserving Einsteins monumental stature while at the same time bringing him to such vivid life that we come to feel as if he could be walking in our midst. This is a terrific work.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals and No Ordinary Time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history

Thoroughly researched and well written, Einstein does an excellent job of summarizing the concepts behind Einsteins theories. Isaacson also does an excellent job illuminating Einsteins personality.

Dennis OBrien, The Baltimore Sun

Isaacson has done a remarkable job conveying a sense of Einstein the man and also the fine details of Einsteins science. This is not only a compelling biography, one in which the next page always beckons, but an example of science writing at its best.

Lawrence M. Krauss, the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve and author of Hiding in the Mirror

Isaacson brings the genius to life through letters, anecdotes, quotes and humor. Isaacson has managed to make a science book read like a thriller.

L. A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News

Isaacsons treatment of Einsteins scientific work is excellent: accurate, complete, and at just the right level of detail for the general reader. Taking advantage of the wealth of recently uncovered historical material, he has produced the most readable biography of Einstein yet.

A. Douglas Stone, professor of physics at Yale

Stimulating and provocative.

Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

Isaacson has triumphed producing a thorough exploration of his subjects life, a skillful piece of scientific literature and a thumping good read. Its one of the greatest stories of modern science and to his credit Isaacson has done a first-rate job in telling it. This is, quite simply, a riveting read.

Robin McKie, The Guardian (UK)

Exemplary science writing Isaacson exudes both a crisp precision and profundity that belie the difficulty of the physics Einstein created. He magisterially guides us through the mans expansive body of work that prefigured most modern physics. Isaacsons tremendous scholarship in uncovering more of the less frequently discussed aspects of Einsteins character will stand as a benchmark for works to come.

Joshua Roebke, Seed

An accessible, fascinating account of one of the twentieth centurys greatest figures Like its subject, Walter Isaacsons ambitious biography of Albert Einstein radiates intelligence, wit and eloquence.

Kathleen Krog, The Miami Herald

A painstaking and reliable biography. You wont go wrong in reading and learning from it.

Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

I found it hard to put down.

Daniel Sutherland, Chicago Tribune

A biography of Albert Einstein may seem daunting to many readers. Walter Isaacson gives you one that isnt. Isaacson is a fluid writer whose narrative talents give Einstein an aura missing from many previous accounts of his life.

Steve Weinberg, The Houston Chronicle

Dramatic and revelatory.

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (London)

Fascinating a delicious read.

Ian Stewart, Winnipeg Free Press

Narrative nonfiction at its best What the book also does is move the author up from the ranks of skilled narrator of historyone who seeks the story behind historical factsand into the top tier of the craft to join the likes of David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

James Srodes, The Washington Times

A fine, affectionate and determinedly lucid account of both Einsteins life and thought.

Duane Davis, Rocky Mountain News

A new biography offering hearty helpings alike of energy, mass, and light To Isaacsons credit, Einstein: His Life and Universe conveys the dizzying concepts of physics in a way most lay readers can grasp.

Erik Spanberg, Christian Science Monitor

A triumphant biography another coup for Isaacson.

John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star

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