Volume 30, Number 7 · April 28, 1983
What Einstein Did
By Rudolf Peierls
'Subtle is the Lord...': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
by Abraham Pais
Oxford University Press, 552 pp., $25.00
Albert Einstein was not only respected and admired by his fellow scientists as probably the greatest physicist of this century but he also achieved extraordinary fame among people who did not have the least idea of his work. What did he accomplish? Although he is most widely known as the discoverer of the theory of relativity, he made other vital contributions which are far less well known but which, by themselves, would have placed him in the front ranks of physicists. The most important of these was his part in creating the quantum theory. He gained the Nobel prize for this, not for his work on relativity.
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