Product Description

Asking "How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank?", this book looks at the history of science from a general perspective. It includes an autobiographical account of how the author became science writer for the "New Yorker", and a series of profiles of famous scientists from Einstein, Neils Bohr and Alan Turing to Primo Levi, Edwin Land and Sophia Kovalevsky.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1523913 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages