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Off the Net: Books on Einstein

Books for Elementary and Middle-School Students

Elementary School Student Books

Calaprice, Alice, ed. Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books,

Heinrichs, Ann. Albert Einstein. Milwaukee: World Almanac Library,

Wishinsky, Frieda. Albert Einstein. London: DK Children,

Middle School Student Books

Stannard, Russell. Black Holes and Uncle Albert. London: Faber and Faber,

Stannard, Russell. The Time and Space of Uncle Albert. London: Faber and Faber,

Stannard, Russell. Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest. London: Faber and Faber,

Wishinsky, Frieda. What's the Matter with Albert? A Story of Albert Einstein. Toronto: Maple Tree Press,

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Books for a General Audience

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Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon and Schuster,

Neffe, Jürgen. Einstein: A Biography. Shelley Frisch, transl. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux,

F�lsing, Albrecht. Albert Einstein: A Biography. Ewald Osers, transl. New York: Viking, *The most complete and up-to-date biography (except for the science).

 

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, born in Ulm in Germany in , was one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, and nearly books have been written about him. Astonishingly, he came up with a number of his groundbreaking ideas—including his theory of special relativity—in , when he was working in Switzerland as a patent clerk.

We've interviewed the authors of two Einstein biographies, Andrew Robinson and Walter Isaacson, about which books to read to learn more about him, and you'll see their book recommendation interviews below. Robinson is an experienced science writer, Isaacson a biographer (who also wrote a fantastic biography of Steve Jobs) so that may affect which book and/or interview you turn to first.

Because of Einstein's importance to physics, books about him come up again and again across Five Books. One of our most highly recommended books is the biography of him by Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord. Bear in mind though, that this is a scientific biography, so if your knowledge of physics and relativity is shaky, it's probably not the best place to start.

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle"—Albert Einstein

Also viewed as essential are the Born-Einstein Letters, which detail debates abo