From his early childhood through the evolution of his remarkable scientific discoveries, a lucid portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest minds offers an accessible introduction to his scientific theories and his "thought experiments," which he utilized to visualize complex concepts. Reprint.
Dr. Donald Goldsmith is the winner of, among many other awards, the 1990 Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the popularization of astronomy. He won the Physics Science Writing Award in 1986 for
Nemesis: The Deathstar and
Other Theories of Mass Extinction. He was a consultant on the late Carl Sagan's groundbreaking PBS series
Cosmos and a co-writer of the PBS series
The Astronomers. His most recent works include
Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets, and
Connecting With the Cosmos.
Robert Libbon is a veteran writer with a degree in European history. His survey of Instant European History was published in 1996 by Fawcett Books.