Einstein in Time and Space : A Life in 99 Particles - Samuel Graydon

Einstein in Time and Space

A Life in 99 Particles

By: Samuel Graydon

Paperback | 28 September 2023 | Edition Number 1

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His face is one of the most recognisable in history. His name is shorthand for 'genius'. His fame is inextricable from his person. 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. But who was Einstein really?

Samuel Graydon tackles this giant of intellect by breaking Einstein's life down into 99 particles, through which he explores Einstein's agglomeration of selves, contradictory as much as cohesive. Ranging from extracts of Einstein's fascinating letters to his scientific theories to his romantic relationships to his thoughts on the historical moment, Graydon explores the mosaic of Einstein. As brilliant as he was inconsistent, Einstein was both an avid supporter of the NAACP and the fight for civil rights in the United States and capable of great prejudice. He was loved by many, known by few, and inspirational to a generation of young physicists.

Graydon reveals every corner of Einstein's world: the false reporting that rocketed Einstein to fame nearly overnight, his effect on people he met merely in passing, even the remarkable posthumous journey of the famed physicist's brain. By turns shocking, comforting, bolstering, and devastating, Einstein in Time and Space is the story of a man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it.

About the Author

Samuel Graydon is the science editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and poetry and won an Alpine fellowship. He lives in Bath with his wife and son. This is his first book.

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