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In honor of Einstein’s birthday, we’re revisiting a 2013 conversation with theoretical physicist and author A. Douglas Stone. In his book “Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian,” Stone writes that whereas Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity, his truly revolutionary idea was the development of quantum theory—an idea that escaped many of the age’s most brilliant minds.
Read an excerpt from “Einstein and the Quantum.”
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A. Douglas Stone
Douglas Stone is Deputy Director of the Yale Quantum Institute and the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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