Einstein and the Generations of Science

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social political and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate a decisive tension within the very fabric of society to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein Bohr Heisenberg de Broglie influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived. . Language: English