About Einstein
Books
Albert Einstein
by Ibi Lepscky. Barron's Educational Series, 1992.
Looks at Albert, the playful child with an active imagination.
Available in Spanish as Albert. (YC)
Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius
by Elizabeth MacLeod. Kids Can Press, 2003.
Uses photographs, cartoons, and quotations to tell Einstein's story.
(C)
Albert Einstein: Genius Behind the Theory of Relativity
by Fiona Macdonald. Blackbirch Press, 2000.
Discusses Einstein's personal, professional, and political lives.
(YA)
Einstein: His Life and Times
by Philipp Frank. Da Capo Press, 1947.
Paints an intimate portrait of Einstein and was reportedly his own
favorite biography of himself. (A)
Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
by Marfé Ferguson Delano. National Geographic, 2005.
Simplifies Einstein's theories and illustrates his life and times
with historical photographs and artifacts. (YA)
The New Quotable Einstein
by Alice Calaprice, ed. Princeton University Press, 2005.
Presents a comprehensive selection of Einstein's commentary on a
variety of topics. (A)
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
by Don Brown.
Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Focuses on Einstein's unique brilliance and misunderstood childhood
in picture-book biography format. (C)
Web Sites
American Museum of Natural History Einstein Exhibit
www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein
Features a comprehensive overview of Einstein's life, work,
philosophy, and legacy. (YA) (A)
Einstein Archives Online
www.alberteinstein.info
Serves as a digitized archive of Einstein's personal, professional,
and biographical documents, including many of his handwritten
papers.
(A)
Jewish-American Hall of Fame Einstein Exhibit
www.amuseum.org/jahf/virtour/page20.html#alberteinstein
Features a collection of medals and coins from around the world with
Einstein's image and an interactive quiz to test your knowledge of
the scientist. (A)
NOVA—Einstein's Big Idea
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein
Includes a time line of significant events in Einstein's life,
interactive simulations of the speed of light and the effect of
motion on time, and essays on Einstein's extraordinary
contributions. (YA) (A)
Way to Go, Einstein!
www.ology.amnh.org/einstein
Offers interactive explorations of Einstein's scientific ideas along
with simple, hands-on activities. (C)
Video
NOVA—Einstein Revealed
WGBH Boston Video, 1996.
Gives a biographical portrait of Einstein based on his letters and
explains the fundamentals of his key discoveries. (YA) (A)
NOVA—Einstein's Big Idea
WGBH Boston Video, 2005.
Dramatizes the stories of the men and women whose innovative
thinking across four centuries led to Einstein's bold breakthrough.
E = mc2: Scientists Connected to the Equation
Books
E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous
Equation
by David Bodanis. Berkley Books, 2000.
Explores the innovative thinkers behind each piece of the equation,
its synthesis by Einstein, and its impact on society. (A)
"Emilie du Châtelet: Genius, Gender and Intellectual
Authority"
by Judith P. Zinsser in
Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition
by Hilda L. Smith, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Details the challenges that du Châtelet faced in an
intellectual environment that excluded the participation of women.
(A)
A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific
Revolution
by James Hamilton. Random House, 2002.
Tells the story of the bookbinder who laid the groundwork for the
modern scientific concept of energy. (A)
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics
by Ruth Lewin Sime. University of California Press, 1996.
Investigates Meitner's life and work, including her discovery of
nuclear fission. (A)
Lise Meitner: Discoverer of Nuclear Fission
by Rachel Stiffler Barron. Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2000.
Describes the life and career of Lise Meitner. (C)
The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk
Maxwell
by Basil Mahon. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Relates the story of the Scotsman whose brilliant mathematics helped
to define the nature of light. (A)
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and
Momentous Discoveries, 2nd ed.
by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. Birch Lane Press, 1998.
Profiles 15 women who have won or contributed significantly to a
Nobel Prize in Science. (YA) (A)
Two-Fisted Science: Stories about Scientists
by Jim Ottaviani. G.T. Labs: 2001.
Depicts, in graphic-novel format, episodes involving Einstein,
Feynman, Oppenheimer, Bohr, and others. (YA)
Web Sites
American Institute of Physics History Exhibits
www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html
Offers online exhibits of Einstein, Curie, Heisenberg, and Lawrence,
and includes an audio tour of the discovery of fission.
(YA) (A)
NOVA—Einstein's Big Idea
www.pbs.org/nova/einstein
Examines the scientists before Einstein who helped pave the way to
our modern understanding of energy, mass, and the speed of light
("Ancestors of E = mc2"). (YA) (A)
Video
NOVA—Einstein's Big Idea
WGBH Boston Video, 2005.
Dramatizes the stories of the men and women whose innovative
thinking across four centuries led to Einstein's bold breakthrough.
(YA) (A)
The Legacy of E = mc2:
New Discoveries and Understandings
Books
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
by Robert Cwiklik. Barron's Educational Series, 1987.
Explains how Einstein's novel ideas changed the way we think about
matter, time, space, gravity, and light. (YA)
E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis. Berkley Books, 2000.
Explores the innovative thinkers behind each piece of the equation,
its synthesis by Einstein, and its impact on society. (A)
Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness
by John S. Rigden. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Focuses on the impact of Einstein's work during 1905—the
"miraculous year" in which he published
E = mc2 and four other universe-changing papers.
(A)
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our
Understanding of Space and Time
by Michio Kaku. W. W. Norton, 2004.
Presents Einstein's complex theories as simple visual images, like
speeding trains, falling elevators, and moving clocks. (A)
Web Sites
Nobel Prize Web Site
www.nobelprize.org/physics/educational/energy
Gives an illustrated, step-by-step walkthrough of the meaning and
implications of E = mc2. (YA) (A)
NOVA—Einstein's Big Idea
www.pbs.org/nova/einstein
Presents the myriad inventions and discoveries that owe their
existence to E = mc2 ("The Legacy of
E = mc2") and tells how E = mc2 figures into the
cutting-edge research of three young physicists ("The Equation
Today"). (YA) (A)
TIME Person of the Century
www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/albert_einstein5a.html
Summarizes Einstein's singular impact on science and history.
(A)
The Legacy of E = mc2:
The Manhattan Project
Books
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert
Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Presents the story of Oppenheimer's life and work—before,
during, and after the Manhattan Project. (A)
Fallout
by Jim Ottaviani, et al. G.T. Labs, 2001.
Explores, in graphic-novel format, the Manhattan Project and the
personalities of some of the key scientists involved.
(YA) (A)
Manhattan Project: America Makes the First Atomic Bomb
by Don E. Beyer. Franklin Watts, 1991.
Gives an overview of life at Los Alamos, and shows how these events
still affect international relations today. (YA)
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project
by General Leslie R. Groves. Da Capo Press, 1962.
Tells of the political, logistical, and personal problems of the
project's leader during the race to build the bomb. (A)
Web Sites
Atomic Museum, New Mexico
www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/manhattanproject.cfm
Presents information and photos concerning the Manhattan Project and
other topics related to nuclear science. (YA) (A)
Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association
www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org
Offers detailed history, and first-person accounts, related to the
Manhattan Project. (YA) (A)
Videos
The American Experience—Race for the Superbomb
WGBH Boston Video, 1999.
Traces the creation of the atomic bomb and the birth of the nuclear
arms race. (YA) (A)
The Day after Trinity
Image Entertainment, 1980.
Documents the Manhattan Project and the subsequent nuclear arms
race, compiled from Oppenheimer and other participants' own
commentaries. (YA) (A)
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