EINSTEIN, Albert - Relativity - The Special and General Theory (1916) - Translated by Robert W. Lawson (1920) - Penguin Classics (2006).pdf

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RELATIVITY
albert einstein, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth
century, was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, to German-Jewish
parents. As a young adult, he moved to Switzerland, where he be-
came a citizen and where he published his first great theories in the
early 1900s, while working as a patent clerk. It was as a professor
at the University of Berlin that he finished the general theory of
relativity in 1915–17. Later, Einstein left Germany and came to
the United States to join the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton. In his later years he became more interested in social is-
sues and penned several books, including About Zionism, on the
state of Israel. He died in 1955 at the age of seventy-six.
Educated as a physicist at Cambridge University, nigel calder
began his full-time writing career on the original staff of New Sci-
entist magazine, and later became its editor. In 1966 he left that
job to devote himself independently to his own writing. Calder’s
subjects have ranged from particle physics to social psychology.
One of his many books is the best-selling Einstein’s Universe,
which Penguin reissued in an updated form in 2005 in celebration
of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s first groundbreaking theo-
ries. He lives in Sussex, England, with his wife, Liz, an artist and
former teacher of Italian.
albert einstein
Relativity
the special and the
general theory
Translated by robert w. lawson, University of Sheffield
Introduced by nigel calder
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