Einstein in Bohemia

by Michael D. Gordin

Book Overview

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague

In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177376
• ISBN13: 9780691177373
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"