The Lesser-Known Albert Einstein

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This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics—aside from his relativity theories—and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
There are very few publications devoted to Einstein's work outside of relativity. This book aims to fill the gap by exploring the scope of Einstein's contributions on topics including molecular forces, thermostatistics, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, molecular currents, critical opalescence, energy quanta, dual structure of radiation, introduction of the photon, and the formulation of the first quantum statistics.
The book pays special attention to Einstein's scepticism toward certain ideas that came to light alongside Schrödinger's first formulation of wave mechanics in 1926, also addressing his doubts regarding the probabilistic interpretation of the quantum formalism, an issue closely connected with the hidden variable theories and their implications. The author discusses the early hidden variable theories, whose appearance was largely a result of Einstein's criticism of the orthodox interpretation of quantum formalism.
Finally, in an appendix, the author explores the controversy about the possible contribution that Mileva Mari?, Albert Einstein's first wife, may have made to some of her husband's main scientific achievements.
This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics—aside from his relativity theories—and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
There are very few publications devoted to Einstein's work outside of relativity. This book aims to fill the gap by exploring the scope of Einstein's contributions on topics including molecular forces, thermostatistics, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, molecular currents, critical opalescence, energy quanta, dual structure of radiation, introduction of the photon, and the formulation of the first quantum statistics.
The book pays special attention to Einstein's scepticism toward certain ideas that came to light alongside Schrödinger's first formulation of wave mechanics in 1926, also addressing his doubts regarding the probabilistic interpretation of the quantum formalism, an issue closely connected with the hidden variable theories and their implications. The author discusses the early hidden variable theories, whose appearance was largely a result of Einstein's criticism of the orthodox interpretation of quantum formalism.
Finally, in an appendix, the author explores the controversy about the possible contribution that Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein's first wife, may have made to some of her husband's main scientific achievements.
Presents Einstein's many masterly, but frequently ignored contributions outside relativity Reviews a comprehensive collection of primary sources for the topics covered Includes a sketch of Einstein’s life during the relevant period

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Luis Navarro Veguillas

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Einstein achievements Ehrenfest Bose photoelectric effect Brownian motion Bohr-Einstein debates Gibbs Bell opalescence Marić wave mechanics statistical mechanics Ampère molecular currents entanglement and EPR hidden variables

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“This comprehensive book gives a complete historical account of Einstein’s nonrelativistic work. … The book concludes with three appendices … a brief chronology of Einstein’s life, and the ongoing project of collected papers of Einstein. In addition to being clearly written for readers with different level of training in physics, a very nice feature of the book is that it also offers rigorous parts and more technical and mathematical details set in different typeface.” (Martin Lukarevski, zbMATH 1573.01002, 2026)

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