商品簡介
Cassidy (natural science, Hofstra U.) traces the impact on society of the views and theories of physicist, essayist, and man of moral principles Albert Einstein (1879-1955). He looks at the scientific and cultural climate and his upbringing at the turn of the 20th century, the impact on physics of relativity and the quantum, relativity and the public, cultural resonances, and science and conscience. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
David Cassidy (Hempstead, NY), formerly associate editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, is currently professor of natural science at Hofstra University. He is also the author of Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (used as a basis of the Broadway play Copenhagen) and the coauthor with G. Holton and J. Rutherford of Understanding Physics.
