Albert Einstein
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.png) Einstein's official 1921 portrait made after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics. | |
| Born |
March 14, 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
|---|---|
| Died |
April 18, 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.
Writings[edit]
(in German unless noted otherwise)
Books[edit]
- Aether und Relativitaetstheorie, Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. (German)
- Geometrie und Erfahrung, Berlin: Springer, 1921. (German)
- About Zionism. Speeches and Letters, MacMillan, 1931. (English)
- On the Method of Theoretical Psysics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933. (English)
- Mein Welbild, Amsterdam: Querido, 1934. (German)
- Comment je vois le monde, trans. Colonel Cros, Paris: Flammarion, 1934. (French)
- Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. (English)
- Aus meinen spater Jahren, Stuttgard: Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt, 1984. (German)
- Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement, Dover publications, 1956. (English)
- with Leopold Infeld, Evolution of Physics, Touchstone, 1967. (English)
- Ausgewählte Texte, ed. Hans Christian Meiser, 1986. (German)
- Grundzüge der Relativitätstheorie/ Meaning of relativity, Berlin: Springer, 2002, 2009. (German)
- A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein, ed. Stephen Hawking, Running Press, 2009. (English)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, 14 vols., Princeton University Press, 1987-2015. [1] (English)
- The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field, intro. Brian Greene, Princeton University Press, 2014. [2] (English)
- Correspondence
- The Born Einstein Letters, trans. Irene Born, Macmillan Press, 1971, IA. (English)
- Translations into Romanian
- Teoria relativităţii, o expunere elementară, trans. I. Pârvu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1992.
- Cum văd eu lumea. O Antologie, trans. M. Flonta and I. Pârvu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1992.
- Cum vãd eu lumea; teoria relativităţii pe înţelesul tuturor, trans. M. Flonta, I. Pârvu and D. Stoianovici, 1996; 2nd ed., Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000.
- Teoria relativităţii pe înţelesul tuturor, trans. Ilie Pârvu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2005, 2006.
Articles[edit]
- "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", 30 June 1905.
Bibliography[edit]
Literature[edit]
- Barry Parker, Einstein's Dream: The Search For A Unified Theory Of The Universe, 2001. [3]
- Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 2005.
