Einstein : his life and universe / by Isaacson, Walter

Table of Contents: “…The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year : quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's God -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Epilogue. …”

Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / by Weinstein, Galina

Table of Contents: “…14 Einstein Leaves the Patent Office for his First Post in Zurich -- 14.1 A University Professor at Zurich -- 14.2 Einstein Invents with the Habicht Brothers -- 14.3 Einstein's First Lecture at the Salzburg Meeting -- 14.4 Zurich-Prague-Zurich-Berlin -- 14.5 Einstein as a Weirdly Shabby Dressed Genius -- Chapter B. -- 1 Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient and Fizeau's Experiment of 1851 -- 1.1 Emission and Wave Theories of Light -- 1.2 Arago and Fresnel -- 1.3 Fizeau's Water Tube Experiment of 1851 -- 1.4 Lorentz Derives Fresnel's Dragging Coefficient in his Electron Theory -- 2 The Michelson and Michelson-Morley Experiment -- 2.1 Maxwell's Letter to Todd -- 2.2 Michelson in Helmholtz's Lab -- 2.3 Michelson in Paris -- 2.4 Michelson Returns to Cleveland and Works with Morley -- 3 Giving Up the Ether in Fin De Siècle Physics -- 4 The Contraction Hypothesis -- 5 Variation of Mass with Velocity -- Chapter C. …”
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1905: year of light: Einstein's important discovery / by Tournancheau, Philippe

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