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Einstein: A Life in Science

Einstein: A Life in Science

Einstein: A Life in Science
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Einstein: A Life in Science Paperback - 1995

by White, Michael J., Gribbin, John

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  • Title Einstein: A Life in Science
  • Author White, Michael J., Gribbin, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume, New York
  • Publication date March 1, 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q15P-00152
  • ISBN 9780452271463 / 0452271460
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.35 x 0.76 in (20.40 x 13.59 x 1.93 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Einstein, Albert, Physicists - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00004260
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.092

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From the publisher

Michael White is a former science editor of British GQ. In a previous incarnation he was a member of the Thompson Twins pop group, and then a science lecturer in Oxford. He is the author of twenty books including the international best-seller, Stephen Hawking: A Life In Science (with John Gribbin). Since then he has written an alternative biography of Isaac Newton, Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, which was nominated by four British newspapers as "biography of the year" in 1997 and awarded "Book of the Year" in the science category by Bookman Associates in the United States.

His latest books are the international best-seller Leonardo: The First Scientist and Michael White's personal account of the '80s and his time in the music industry, titled: Thompson Twin: An '80s Memoir. His latest is Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers-a study of scientific rivalry from Newton to Gates published in 2001. He lives in Kent, England with his wife and three children.


John Gribbin, Ph.D., trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. His books include the highly acclaimed In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, The First Chimpanzee, In Search of the Big Bang, In the Beginning, In Search of the Edge of Time, In Search of the Double Helix, The Stuff of the Universe (with Martin Rees), Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, and Einstein: A Life in Science (with Michael White). He lives in East Sussex with his wife and two sons.

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