What Einstein knew: one year and five papers that changed physics forever.(Einstein 1905 The Standard of Greatness)(The Einstein Almanac)(Book Review)

From: American Scholar | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Rothman, Tony | Copyright information

EINSTEIN 1905 The Standard of Greatness By John S. Rigden Harvard University Press $21.95

THE EINSTEIN ALMANAC By Alice Calaprice Johns Hopkins University Press \ $24.95

Two thousand five promises to be a good year fin centennials. Historians will mark the hundreth anniversary of the first Russian revolution; music lovers may celebrate a century of Juilliard and Richard Strauss's Salome, literati the hundredth birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre. Danish astronomers ...