| Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study Contributor(s): Regis, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0201122782 ISBN-13: 9780201122787 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1988 Annotation: This is the fascinating history of the Institute for Advanced Study, which was home to fourteen Nobel laureates and most of the century's greatest mathematicians and physicists, including Einstein, Kurt Godel, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Reference - Reference | Research |
| Dewey: 001.4 |
| Lexile Measure: 1230 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.98" W x 8.86" (1.03 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt G edel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century science--cellular automata and superstrings.Who Got Einstein's Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities. |