Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Einstein is the embodiment of the scientific genius, and sure enough, was a physicist. His main achievements are of course the special and general theory of relativity but he is also (or should be) famous for:

• his A and B coefficients,
• the Bose-Einstein condensation of the ideal gas,
• the Wiener-Khinchin theorem, etc.

See also

• Einstein on the beach, an opera by Philip Glass.

Litterature

By Einstein

The CPAE (Collected Papers of Albert Einstein) attempts to make this list exhaustive. I have the following entries in my BibTeX file (meaning I have studied and probably cited these texts):

• Concerning an Heuristic Point of View Toward the Emission and Transformation of Light. A. Einstein in Annalen der Physik [ 17:132] (1905).
• On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat. A. Einstein in Annalen der Physik [ 17:549] (1905).
• On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. A. Einstein in Annalen der Physik [ 17:] (1905).
• Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy Content? A. Einstein in Annalen der Physik [ 18:639] (1905).
• Méthode pour la détermination de valeurs statistiques d'observations concernant des grandeurs soumises à des fluctuations irrégulières. A. Einstein in Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. 37:254 (1914).
• Strahlungs-emission und absorption nach der Quantentheorie. A. Einstein in Verh. Deutsch. Phys. Gesell. [ 18:318] (1916).
• Quantentheorie des einatomigen idealen Gases. A. Einstein in Königliche Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sitzungsberichte 261-267 (1924).
• Quantentheorie des einatomigen idealen Gases. A. Einstein in Sitzungsberichte der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1:3 (1925).
• Zur Quantentheorie des idealen Gases. A. Einstein in Sitzungsberichte der Preu\SSischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1:18 (1925).
• Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? A. Einstein, B. Podolsky and N. Rosen in Phys. Rev. 47:777 (1935).

Also of note:

• Mein Weltbild (The most famous translation being "The World as I see it", but better still, its extended version by his first biographer [Seelig]: "Ideas and Opinions").

On Einstein

• Abraham Pais' "Subtle is the Lord".
• Einstein studies series, including:
  • Einstein the Formative Years, 1879–1909.