Publisher's Synopsis
This series looks at the development of scientific thought and discovery through the lives and achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists.;Focusing on the life and work of Albert Einstein, this book outlines the great contributions he made to scientific knowledge. Starting with the five-year-old Einstein's fascination with the behaviour of a pocket compass, it follows the development of his academic career, his work to establish a unified field theory which occupied the last 25 years of his working life, and his personal life as a musician, Zionist and pacifist.
