Who Got Einstein's Office?

Edward Regis

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Author
Edward Regis
Publish Date
1988-01-22
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Basic Books
Subtitle
Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
Number of Pages
336
ISBN-10
0201122782
ISBN-13
9780201122787
citemno
192536
SKU
9780201122787

Description

It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Göedel 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.