Daniel Kennefick

The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity

An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves

The complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Einstein

Since Einstein first described them nearly a century ago, gravitational waves have been the subject of more sustained controversy than perhaps any other phenomenon in physics. These as yet undetected fluctuations in the shape of...

The present volume, set in the turbulent post-World War I period, finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of starlight by the sun. With the...