Diana Kormos Buchwald is Robert M. Abbey Professor of History and General Editor and Director of The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, where she shepherded ten volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and their English translations into print. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical Society, and member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist in the history of modern science, he has published books on nuclear weapons, Albert Einstein, and debates over pseudoscience. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a member of the Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences of Germany.

Albert Einstein lived a life of soaring scientific creativity. He also witnessed, and responded to, some of the most searing developments of modern times: world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the nuclear age. This remarkable book traces how the efforts of Einstein's life hung together.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: 1921 Chapter 1: Bern and Princeton Chapter 2: Relativity Theory Chapter 3: Quantum Theory Chapter 4: Belonging Chapter 5: War and Peace Chapter 6: Free Creations Notes Further Reading

Diana Kormos Buchwald is Robert M. Abbey Professor of History and General Editor and Director of The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, where she shepherded ten volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and their English translations into print. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical Society, and member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist in the history of modern science, he has published books on nuclear weapons, Albert Einstein, and debates over pseudoscience. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a member of the Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences of Germany.

Albert Einstein lived a life of soaring scientific creativity. He also witnessed, and responded to, some of the most searing developments of modern times: world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the nuclear age. This remarkable book traces how the efforts of Einstein's life hung together.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: 1921 Chapter 1: Bern and Princeton Chapter 2: Relativity Theory Chapter 3: Quantum Theory Chapter 4: Belonging Chapter 5: War and Peace Chapter 6: Free Creations Notes Further Reading

Diana Kormos Buchwald is Robert M. Abbey Professor of History and General Editor and Director of The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, where she shepherded ten volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and their English translations into print. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical Society, and member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist in the history of modern science, he has published books on nuclear weapons, Albert Einstein, and debates over pseudoscience. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a member of the Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences of Germany.

Albert Einstein lived a life of soaring scientific creativity. He also witnessed, and responded to, some of the most searing developments of modern times: world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the nuclear age. This remarkable book traces how the efforts of Einstein's life hung together.

• Acknowledgments Prologue: 1921 Chapter 1: Bern and Princeton Chapter 2: Relativity Theory Chapter 3: Quantum Theory Chapter 4: Belonging Chapter 5: War and Peace Chapter 6: Free Creations Notes Further Reading