The Dim Boy Who Became a Time Lord ; Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Simon Schuster 25 22.50 (0845 606 4213)

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Even in his own day, Albert Einstein's fame had ambiguous consequences.

On the one hand, his shock of grey hair, twinkling eyes and perpetual grin, as if God were whispering to him a very good joke which the rest of us couldn't hear, made science seem glamorous and human. On the other, his ubiquity cast physics as the domain of geniuses rather than people like us.

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The Dim Boy Who Became a Time Lord ; Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Simon Schuster 25 22.50 (0845 606 4213)

We, after all, are no Einsteins.

Walter Isaacson's achievement is to take us beyond the myth of the huge brain. Through an artful mix of biography and lucid illumin...

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