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The Private Lives of Albert Einstein Paperback – January 1, 1995

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A less-than-flattering biography of the great genius draws on archives and interviews to expose a man of powerful emotions and a deeply troubled family life.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St Martins Pr; First Edition (January 1, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 031213147X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312131470
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 9 inches

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Roger Highfield was born in Wales, raised in north London and became the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble.

He was the science editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades, Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011 and today is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, a group of five museums visited by around 5.5 million people annually.

A member of the Medical Research Council, visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry, UCL, and the Dunn School, University of Oxford, Roger has written or coauthored nine books, the latest being Virtual You (March 2023). He also edited two books by Craig Venter.

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Totally smashs the Einstein myth created by the court historians of physics

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2008

Highfield and Carter (HC) completely demolish the myth created by the Einstein establishment in physics of Saint Einstein.HC demonstrate that Albert Einstein was a misogynist who abandoned/mistreated his children.His basic reason for associating with the opposite sex was to obtain sex.All of Albert's relationships with women were purely sexual .Albert Einstein's interactions with his children and wives were based on deception,duplicity,and deviousness.
HC also show that Albert Einstein was a genius who failed to acknowledge the help and collaboration in his published work.It is absurd for a journal editor to publish a paper,(Einstein's first 1905 paper was on the photoelectric effect;the second paper was on Brownian motion;the third paper was on relativity and had no references;and the last paper established the foundation for the E= m c squared result concerning the relationship between mass and energy) with no references or bibliography.Yet this is exactly what happened .
HC dropped the ball by not explicitly discussing the highly technical discussions that took place in a number of the letters(54) exchanged between Albert and Meliva in the time period between 1897 and 1903.The 47 letters exchanged between 1897 and 1901 contain some highly technical discussions in which Albert asks for help.The smoking gun appears when Albert refers to "our work" and "our theory".These words mean exactly what they say.

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This is an excellent book to read. It was carefully researched and presented in a candid, well-written style. However, let us be honest, it is a book length gossip column.

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Essential Einstein reading....

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It is inevitable that Albert Einstein's "private lives" will fall under the dissection knives of historians and biographers. There are already dozens of excellent biographies of Einstein on the market, ranging from the extremely scientific to the extremely personal. As the Einstein Papers Project continues to explore the personal correspondence of this remarkable scientist, we can expect the personal revelations to continue. Einstein, as were all great figures of history, was a very complicated person, and a very human one.
In this work, the authors take a very personal look at his life between the high school years and the publication of special relativity. Specifically, it focuses on his first marriage, to Mileva Maric'. Much about this relationship was kept intentionally hidden for years by Einstein's secretary Helen Dukas, and scientist Otto Nathan, who became the de facto protectors of the "Einstein image." Since they had known him in the era of his marriage to his cousin Elsa, they understandably sought to minimize and downplay any factors from his younger years that might reflect negatively upon him, and a failed first marriage, with an illegitimate child, could certainly be seen as less than flattering.
Highfield and Carter's book draws heavily on the work of the Einstein Papers scholars Stachel, Renn, and Schulmann. Einstein's voluminous correspondence from those years has shed much new light on such questions as the fate of the daughter Liseral, but without providing definitive answers. Considerable time is also spent on the issue of Mileva's role in the development of special relativity - topic that exploded with the force of a bomb in recent years.
Einstein has been dead for nearly half a century now, and it is certain now that his private life will be subjected to as intense scrutiny as has special and general relativity. This book, along with Overbye's "Einstein in Love" take a respectful but straightforward approach. Any Einstein admirer or general fan of the history of science should read this book.

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