Einstein Wrote Back
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Author | John W. Moffat |
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Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Subject | Memoir |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publication date | 2010 |
Pages | 244 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0-88762-615-9 |
Preceded by | Reinventing Gravity |
Einstein Wrote Back is a memoir by Canadian physicist John Moffat which documents his encounters with various other famous physicists, including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Abdus Salam, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as his work at Imperial College London, Princeton University, CERN, and the University of Toronto. The title of the book comes from a series of letters Moffat exchanged with Einstein early in his life, which inspired Moffat to continue studying physics.
Reception[]
Writing in Physics World, Graham Farmelo described the book as a pleasant read, though some of the anecdotes appeared embellished and historical details were inconsistent.[1]
See also[]
- Reinventing Gravity, another book by Moffat
References[]
- ^ Farmelo, Graham (2011-12-08). "Quirks of memory". Physics World. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
Categories:
- Physics books
- Canadian memoirs
- 2010 non-fiction books
- Physics book stubs
- Memoir stubs