TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pais,Abraham
TI  - "Subtle is the Lord-- ": the science and the life of Albert Einstein 
SN  - 019853907X
AV  - QC16.E5 P26 1982
U1  - 530.092 20
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Oxford [Oxfordshire], New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Einstein, Albert,
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Physics
KW  - History
KW  - Physiciens
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Physique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Natuurkunde
KW  - gtt
KW  - Natuurkundigen
KW  - Einstein, Albert - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Purpose and plan -- Relativity theory and quantum theory -- Portrait of the physicist as a young man -- Entropy and probability -- The reality of molecules -- "Subtle is the Lord-- " -- The new kinematics -- The edge of history -- "The happiest thought of my life" -- Herr Professor Einstein -- The Prague papers -- The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration -- Field theories of gravitation : the first fifty years -- The field equations of gravitation -- The new dynamics -- "The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein" -- Unified field theory -- Preliminaries -- The light quantum -- Einstein and specific heats -- The photon -- Interlude : the BKS proposal -- A loss of identity : the birth of quantum statistics -- Einstein as a transitional figure : the birth of wave mechanics -- Einstein's response to the new dynamics -- Einstein's vision -- The final decade -- Epilogue -- Of tensors and a hearing aid and many other things : Einstein's collaborators -- How Einstein got the Nobel prize -- Einstein's proposals for the Nobel prize -- An Einstein chronology
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/82002273-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/82002273-b.html
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/subtleislordscie00pais
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL3482867M
ER  -