Einstein at Home

by Friedrich Herneck

Josef Eisinger (Translator), Senior Editor Alice Calaprice (Foreword), and Alice Calaprice (Foreword)

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These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich Herneck interviewed Ms. Waldow and published the conversations in the former East Germany. Unavailable in English till now, these five interviews offer fascinating glimpses into the great scientist's daily routines while he lived as a celebrated scientist in Weimar Germany.

Einstein's well-known idiosyncrasies come to life in these conversations: his disheveled...Read more
  • ISBN10 1633881474
  • ISBN13 9781633881471
  • Publish Date 10 May 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Prometheus Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 204
  • Language English