Easy Lessons in Einstein

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First distributed in 1920, the chemist’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is many of the first propagations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This text is proposed to express to the public the concepts of relativity in non-mathematical jargons, by making use of ideas of experiments and popular cultural sources of the time. This book also contains a brief article by Einstein on Time, Space and Gravitation.

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He advanced the theory of relativity, it is one of the two pillars of modern physics along with quantum mechanics. The physicist’s work is also notable for its impact on the philosophy of science. Einstein is most famous in pop-culture for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 which has been tagged as “the world’s most famous equation”. He was awarded with the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”, a crucial phase in the development of quantum theory.

Einstein wrote over three hundred scientific papers also with more than one hundred fifty non-scientific writings. Einstein’s intellectual accomplishments and ingenuity have created his name Einstein alike with the word genius.

Edwin Emery Slosson was an American magazine editor, writer, journalist and chemist. He was the first head of Science Service, and he was remarkable for propagating science.

Edwin Emery Slosson was born in Albany, Kansas, to his father William Butler Slosson and Edwin’s mother, the then Achsah Louise Lilly. Both of his parents were innovators who had gone from New York State to Kansas in 1857. William Butler Slosson managed the first general merchandise in Albany. An advocate of liberal nation status for Kansas, he assisted to start up a branch of the Underground Railroad and managed a station where absconding slaves were given shelter.
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