I just finished reading a remarkable biography of Albert Einstein, and want to recommend it. It's called Einstein, His Life and Universe. It's the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that until recently had been sealed from the public. It's hard to imagine another book that could do equal justice to Einstein's richly textured and complicated life. It's really a wonderful read, and tells us not only about Einstein's science, but his personal life as well.

 

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I've got it, but I haven't had time to read it yet. I'm looking forward to it.

NLN, if you are going to promote another web site in your posts, please make sure it is relevant - don't take the piss. Those posts where you point to specific articles on MLU are fine; just adding a link to the bottom of every post is not.

 

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