cover image Dear Prof. Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

Dear Prof. Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

. Prometheus Books, $25.98 (232pp) ISBN 978-1-59102-015-8

Scientific Thoughts ""I have started to write before many times, only to tear the letter into bits. For you are such a brillant [sic] person... I am just an average twelve year old girl in the 7A at Eliot Junior High School... You and my uncle, who is in the Coast Guard, are my heroes."" So begins one of the many touching missives on everything from the theory of relativity to a comic book about atoms in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children, edited by Alice Calaprice (The Quotable Einstein). Includes a thumbnail biography, an introduction by Einstein scholar Robert Schulmann and a foreword by the physicist's granddaughter, Evelyn Einstein. (Sept.)