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Eternal Einstein Behind the legendary thinker's astonishing legacy and enigmatic nature
From:
The Boston Globe
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April 15, 2007| Author:
Amir D.Aczel; Aczel is an author; science scholar whose forthcoming book is "The Jesuit; the Skull."
| Copyright 2007 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information
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BOOK REVIEW
Einstein: His Life and Universe
By Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 675 pp., illustrated, $32
Few individuals in history have attained the celebrity status of
Albert Einstein - a man whose name is synonymous with genius.
Certainly no scientist was ever as famous, and the Einstein shelves
in bookstores and libraries are overflowing. But trying to understand
what Einstein was about is not easy, and many of his biographers have
been stumped by the apparent contra...
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