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Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness
John S. Rigden
An accessible, even page-turning, account of Einstein's new insights and the turmoil that they created. - School Library Journal
Harvard University Press
January 2005
Featuring: Albert Einstein
192 pages
ISBN: 0674015444
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
For Albert Einstein, 1905 was a remarkable year. It was
also a miraculous year for the history and future of
science. In six short months, from March through September
of that year, Einstein published five papers that would
transform our understanding of nature. This unparalleled
period is the subject of John Rigden�s book, which
deftly
explains what distinguishes 1905 from all other years in
the annals of science, and elevates Einstein above all
other scientists of the twentieth century. Rigden
chronicles the momentous theories that Einstein put forth
beginning in March 1905: his particle theory of light,
rejected for decades but now a staple of physics; his
overlooked dissertation on molecular dimensions; his theory
of Brownian motion; his theory of special relativity; and
the work in which his famous equation, E = mc2, first
appeared. Through his lucid exposition of these ideas, the
context in which they were presented, and the impact they
had�and still have�on society, Rigden makes
the
circumstances of Einstein�s greatness thoroughly and
captivatingly clear. To help readers understand how these
ideas continued to develop, he briefly describes
Einstein�s
post� 1905 contributions, including the general
theory of
relativity. One hundred years after Einstein�s
prodigious
accomplishment, this book invites us to learn about ideas
that have influenced our lives in almost inconceivable
ways, and to appreciate their author�s status as the
standard of greatness in twentieth-century science.
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