"Annus Mirabilis," or "miraculous year" is a capsule biography of Einstein folded into a "Relativity for Dummies" handbook. Its first 137 pages offer basic and lucid accounts of Einstein's ideas ...

Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought of my life." Interlude one. The romance of many dimensions ; Glimpsing a solution ...

The year 1922 was a busy one for Albert Einstein: He completed his first paper on unified field theory, went to Paris to help normalize French-German relations and joined an intellectuals committee at ...

One of Albert Einstein’s many accomplishments was unlocking entirely new ways of thinking: His theories about how time and space operate led to radical shifts in how physicists — and many ordinary ...

The last 30 years of his life were spent on a fruitless search for a unified field theory, but as John Ellis explains, Einstein put this "holy grail" of modern physics on the theoretical map. The ...

Albert Einstein has been in the news lately because of the detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatories near Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

Walter Isaacson’s 704-page, 2.4-pound biography of Albert Einstein may not provide a solution to the great question that nagged the physicist to the day he died – but thanks to Isaacson's access to a ...

(LONDON) — A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 million euros (over $15 million), including fees, beating all predictions. The ...

In the middle of Walter Isaacson's presentation Wednesday afternoon at the Aspen Institute, his laptop computer flashed a message on the screen: "Your battery is fully charged."It was an apt metaphor ...

Writer and futurist Bodanis (Passionate Minds) imparts fresh insight into the genius—and failures—of the 20th century’s most celebrated scientist. Einstein learned early on to follow his own curiosity ...