Einstein at home /
These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich Herneck inter...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Time Line; Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks; Chapter 2: Friedrich Herneck, Historian of Science in Difficult Times, by Dieter B. Herrmann; Chapter 3: Einstein's Road to Berlin-and Beyond, by Josef Eisinger; Early Years (1879-1895); Student in Zurich (1896-1901); Patent Clerk in Bern (1902-1908); Zurich and Prague (1909-1913); Berlin (1914-1932); The War Years, Divorce, and General Relativity; Fame, Politics, and the Gyrocompass; Zionist and Voyager; Einstein at Fifty: Caputh and Pasadena; Two Weeks at Home
- Weimar Culture and SciencePrinceton (1933-1955); Farewell to Europe; Coda; Chapter 4: Einstein at Home, Herta W. Recalls the Years 1927 to 1933, by Friedrich Herneck; First Conversation: The Apartment in the Haberlandstrasse; Second Conversation: Frequent Visitors and Rare Guests; Third Conversation: Family-Vacations-Foreign Journeys; Fourth Conversation: Summer House and Sailboat in Caputh; Fifth Conversation: The House Searched and Plundered-Interrogation; Photo Insert; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index