EINSTEIN IN SPACE AND TIME
A Life in Particles
By Samuel Graydon
Think you know Einstein? Then think again
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age.
The Nobel Prize winning physicist who discovered 'general' relativity, black holes and E=mc2 , dined with Charlie Chaplin, in Hollywood and was the inspiration for naming highly radioactive, element 99, Albert Einstein was also a high-school dropout with an FBI file 1,400 pages long.
