"Subtle is the Lord-- ": the science and the life of Albert Einstein

Purpose and plan

Relativity theory and quantum theory

Portrait of the physicist as a young man

Entropy and probability

The reality of molecules

"Subtle is the Lord

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The new kinematics

The edge of history

"The happiest thought of my life"

Herr Professor Einstein

The Prague papers

The Einstein-Grossmann collaboration

Field theories of gravitation : the first fifty years

The field equations of gravitation

The new dynamics

"The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein"

Unified field theory

Preliminaries

The light quantum

Einstein and specific heats

The photon

Interlude : the BKS proposal

A loss of identity : the birth of quantum statistics

Einstein as a transitional figure : the birth of wave mechanics

Einstein's response to the new dynamics

Einstein's vision

The final decade

Epilogue

Of tensors and a hearing aid and many other things : Einstein's collaborators

How Einstein got the Nobel prize

Einstein's proposals for the Nobel prize

An Einstein chronology.

Introductory

Statistical Physics

Relativity, the Special Theory

Relativity, the General Theory

The Later Journey

The Quantum Theory

Journey's End

Appendices.