Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives

by Gerald Holton

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Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker, who asked whether he believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, and exchange about fine music with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691082316

ISBN13:9780691082318

Release Date:January 1979

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

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