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'Fascinating and vivid' CARLO ROVELLI DROPOUT, PACIFIST, PHYSICIST, CASANOVA, REFUGEE, GENIUS . . . WHO WAS ALBERT EINSTEIN? The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, Einstein was also a high-school failure with an FBI file 1,400 pages long. From his lost daughter to escaping the Nazis, from dining with Charlie Chaplin to refusing the Presidency of Israel, Einstein in Time and Space tells 99 unexpected stories of the man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it. 'Unforgettable' the i, Book of the Month 'Compelling' Wall Street Journal

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Illuminating * Nature * A mosaic biography of an exceptional scientist . . . [pieced together] with illuminating skill, style, candour and charm * TLS * For all the thousands of biographies previously written of him, I think Graydon has done a fine and often fascinating job here, and anyone with an interest in science and scientists will absolutely lap this up * Mail on Sunday *

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Samuel Graydon is the science editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and been longlisted for an Alpine fellowship. This is his first book.

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