![]() ![]() Folsing uses previously unknown sources and letters to put Einsteins work in the. Through painstaking research, Folsing is useful in dismantling some popular myths about Einstein - that he was a wretched student (in fact, he generally scored high on exams) that initially his work received no recognition from other scientists (recognition came comparatively fast and ungrudgingly) that Einstein paid no attention to practical life (indeed, a healthy self-interest seems behind Einstein's carefully calculated career moves) or that Einstein was directly responsible for the atomic bomb (denied a security clearance by the FBI because of his leftist politics, Einstein was uninvolved in the Manhattan Project, although he was the theoretical "father" of the bomb). Buy a cheap copy of Albert Einstein: A Biography book by Albrecht Folsing. Nor can Folsing breathe life into Einstein's family or friends, although Einstein himself emerges, somewhat obscurely, as a traditional if charming egoist subordinating two wives and abandoning a schizophrenic son. Lorenz and Max Planck and later Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger and Enrico Fermi, never achieve human form. ![]() The major scientists in Einstein's early years, Ernst Mach, Clerk Maxwell, H.A. ![]() Folsing is equally inept as a portraitist. ![]()
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