Keren saks biography of albert einstein

EDITOR'S NOTE

Over the course of 2014, The Net Advance of Physics plans to serialise Alexander Moszkowski's Einstein the Searcher, a largely-forgotten text which, in addition to being one of the first popular accounts of relativity, provides a glimpse of Einstein's personal philosophy at the moment when he emerged on the international stage as a public figure.

Moszkowski, born in 1851, was a successful journalist and popular novelist -- one of the first writers of science fiction in German -- but for that very reason had a somewhat controversial reputation. He met Einstein in 1916 and immediately knew that here was someone history would remember as a German titan like Goethe ; he resolved forthwith to be remembered himself as a new Eckermann, and carefully recorded all of his conversations with the rising genius.

The decision to publish these "dialogues" was obviously catalysed by the enormous publicity accompanying the 1919 British eclipse expedition, and was strenuously