Table of Contents
Contents: Prologue Paris, 1903: Cracks begin to appear Berlin, 1900: An act of desperation Bern, 1905: The patent serf Paris, 1906: The decline and fall of Pierre Curie Berlin, 1908: The end of the flying cigars Prague, 1911: Einstein says it with flowers Cambridge, 1911: A Dane grows up The North Atlantic, 1912: The sinking of infallibility Munich, 1913: A painter moves to Munich Munich, 1914: On tour with the atom Berlin, 1915: Good at theory, bad at relationships Germany, 1916: War and peace Berlin, 1917: Einstein breaks down Berlin, 1918: Pandemic The Caribbean, 1919: The moon obscures the sun Munich, 1919: A young man reads Plato Berlin, 1920: Great minds meet Göttingen, 1922: A son finds his father Munich, 1923: A high-flier almost crashes Copenhagen, 1923: Bohr and Einstein take the tram Copenhagen, 1924: One last try Paris, 1924: A prince makes atoms sing Heligoland, 1925: The vastness of the sea and the tininess of atoms Cambridge, 1925: The quiet genius Leiden, 1925: The prophet of spin Arosa, 1925: A late erotic outburst Copenhagen, 1926: Waves and particles Berlin, 1926: A visit with the demigods Berlin, 1926: The Plancks throw a party Göttingen, 1926: The abolition of reality Munich, 1926: A turf war Copenhagen, 1926: Exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky Copenhagen, 1926: A game with sharpened knives Copenhagen, 1927: The world goes fuzzy Como, 1927: Dress rehearsal Brussels, 1927: The great debate Berlin, 1930: Germany flourishes, Einstein falls ill Brussels, 1930: K.O. in the second round Zurich, 1931: Pauli’s dreams Copenhagen, 1932: Faust in Copenhagen Berlin, 1933: Some flee, some stay Amsterdam, 1933: A sad end Oxford, 1935: The cat that isn’t there Princeton, 1935: Einstein puts the world back in focus Garmisch, 1935: Dirty snow Moscow, 1937: On the other side Berlin, 1938: Bursting nuclei The Atlantic, 1939: Terrible news Copenhagen, 1941: Estrangement Berlin, 1942: No bomb for Hitler Stockholm, 1943: Flight Princeton, 1943: Einstein mellows England, 1945: The impact of the explosion Epilogue Index
