This is, to be sure a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. He chaired the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, which organized to alert the public to the dangers of atomic warfare.Īt a symposium, he advised: " In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. Einstein, a pacifist during World War I, stayed a firm proponent of social justice and responsibility. After the rise of the Nazi party, Einstein made Princeton his permanent home, becoming a U.S.
His first paper on Special Relativity Theory, also published in 1905, changed the world.
His 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, the basis of electronics, earned him the Nobel Prize in 1921. I highly recommend this book for children aged 10-15 years old.In 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. The effect is quite dramatic and entertaining for the reader.Īlbert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is a great example of children’s non-fiction done well and a wonderful resource for STEM/STEAM subjects. Each page spread is beautifully presented using a limited palette of simple block colours enhanced with considered details. The illustrations by James Weston Lewis play a significant role in the appeal of this book. This is not a book to be read in one sitting – rather readers could easily spend one day on just one topic – there are some heavy ideas that need time to be digested gravity, time, space, light, relativity. The explanations though I thought were very good, describing concepts in relatable ways with the aid of pictures. The overall book is further broken down into approximately one topic per page spread, and the text on these pages are segmented into manageable chunks, rather than one long explanation. For someone who is not particularly ‘sciency’, i.e. me, this format was a lot more accessible and the topic of physics not quite so daunting. Whilst it is obviously a non-fiction text it is presented in a story-like fashion – beginning with Einstein as a boy, exploring what scientists and philosophers currently thought and then introducing Einstein’s own progression of scientific breakthroughs. I think though, the contributors of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity go a long way towards achieving just that. At 370 by 275mm this is a large format book with a large topic – ‘Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity’ no less! To convey this complicated concept within a book, in such a way that children will understand and even enjoy, is no small challenge.
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