Relying scrupulously on primary sources, Isaacson details the ideas, pressures, relationships, and political context that surrounded Einstein. Similarly, Einstein’s politics were based on the idea of creating and empowering a one-world government.įollowing this overarching theme of Einstein’s life, Isaacson’s book is a unifying force in our understanding of Einstein. His theory of the photovoltaic effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize, brought together ideas of quanta and the nature of light. His theory of general relativity connected the dissimilar ideas of gravity and electromagnetism. Einstein was compelled to explore ways to bring together disparate parts of science. Throughout this most-encompassing biography of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson continually returns to a theme that pervaded Einstein’s life: that of unification.
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