A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the
spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to
Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a
professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague
his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that
his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential
episode. Einstein in Bohemia is a spellbinding portrait of the city
that touched Einstein's life in unexpected ways—and of the gifted
young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and
politics of Prague. Michael Gordin's narrative is a masterfully
crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a
specific moment in time. Despite being heir to almost a millennium of
history, Einstein's Prague was a relatively marginal city within the
sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yet Prague, its history, and its
multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein's personal
and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he
first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he
embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where
he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist
intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other
important figures. Einstein in Bohemia sheds light on this
transformative period of Einstein's life and career, and brings
vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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ISBN
9780691199849
Publisert
2019
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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