Abraham Pais, Author Princeton University Press $37.5 (410p) ISBN 978-0-691-01243-8
Einstein's biographer (Subtle Is the Lord) has now collected memories of his own life, strung together like beads, with nothing to link them but a slack chronological filament. Pais, one of the foremost physicists of this century and former...
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Abraham Pais, Author Oxford University Press, USA $35 (604p) ISBN 978-0-19-852049-8
When Einstein's revolution opened a window to quantum physics, it was the Dane Niels Bohr (1885-1962) who went through it to decode the first atomic spectrum (and to win a Nobel Prize in 1922). Bohr's career as a physicist spanned the full...
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Abraham Pais, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-853994-0
These 11 essays, articles and pastiches of interviews are assembled by a physicist who is arguably Einstein's best interpreter; his biography of Einstein (1879-1955), Subtle Is the Lord , won the American Book Award in 1983. Pais's rigidly organized
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Abraham Pais, Author Oxford University Press $66 (96p) ISBN 978-0-19-850614-0
Physicist Pais won an American Book Award for his 1983 Einstein bio, Subtle Is the Lord; here he offers short, memorable, avowedly subjective sketches of the lives, accomplishments and personalities of 16 men whose work drove modern physics. ""I...
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Abraham Pais, Author, Robert P. Crease, Supplement by . Oxford Univ. $30 (353p) ISBN 978-0-19-516673-6
Back in the 1990s, when Pais ("Subtle Is the Lord..."
) began to seriously consider writing about Oppenheimer, there was no full-scale biography of the scientist who led America's effort to create the atom bomb. But with a surfeit of...
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