by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin · Icon Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781848318526
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«Einstein's Masterwork» is a popular science essay by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, published by Icon Books in hardback (240 pages, in English).
The book explains the general theory of relativity that Albert Einstein presented in 1915 to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Its implications include black holes, neutron stars, gravitational lenses, and the different rate of clocks on Earth and in space. John and Mary Gribbin argue that 1915, not 1905, was Einstein's great year.
Subtitled «1915 and the General Theory of Relativity», the book was published on 7 May 2015.
Suitable for the general public interested in Albert Einstein and the history of physics, with an accessible popular-science approach.
John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around."
