His biography is a pleasure to read and makes the great physicist come alive.' - Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The Quark and the Jaguar He met the challenge of dealing with his subject as a human being and describing profound ideas in physics. It helps that he has had access to important new material. 'Once again Walter Isaacson has produced a most valuable biography of a great man about whom much has already been written. It is excellently readable and combines the personal and the scientific aspects of Einstein's life in a graceful way.' - Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics at Harvard and author of Einstein, History, and Other Passions 'This book will be widely and deservedly admired. 'This book does an amazing job getting the science right and the man revealed.' - Sylvester James Gates, Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland With an effortless style that belies a sharp attention to detail and scientific accuracy, Isaacson takes us on a soaring journey through the life, mind, and science of the man who changed our view of the universe.' - Brian Greene, Professor of Physics at Columbia and author of The Fabric of the Cosmos 'Walter Isaacson has captured the complete Einstein. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.

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