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Inward boundAbraham Pais

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Abraham Pais' <i>'Subtle is the Lord...'</i> -- the award-winning biography of Albert Einstein -- received high acclaim from <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> which hailed it as "a monument to sound scholarship and graceful style," and from <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> which called it "an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man." In his groundbreaking new book, Pais chronicles the history of the physics of matter and physical forces since the discovery of x-rays. He relates not only what has happened over the last one-hundred years, but also why it happened the way it did,…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 1988
    Oxford University Press, USA · 688 pages · 9780198519973
  • Other · English · 1986
    Clarendon Press · 666 pages · 9780198519713
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