Books by Dennis Overbye
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
by Dennis Overbye
Stuart Clark says: This is a massively ambitious book, describing the way cosmology progressed in the 20th century through the stories of the people who made the advances
Andrew Lawrence says: If you want to know how astronomy really works then this is a book you should read. It is warts and all, about the competing personalities
Einstein in Love
by Dennis Overbye
This is a great piece of writing and of research about Einstein’s relationship with his first wife who served as his sounding board in the miracle year of 1905 when he discovers special relativity and lays the groundwork for quantum theory. Mileva Maric was a physics student at Zurich Polytechnic and when she and Einstein met they fell madly in love.
Interviews where books by Dennis Overbye were recommended
The best books on Einstein, recommended by Walter Isaacson
From the Swiss patent applications that helped inspire his thinking on relativity to the scientist he fell madly in love with but later divorced, biographer Walter Isaacson recommends books on the life and work of Albert Einstein. (Isaacson’s biography of Einstein was described as “a thorough exploration of his subject’s life, a skilful piece of scientific literature and a thumping good read” in a Guardian review and has also been recommended by novelist Ian McEwan on Five Books.)
The best books on Astronomy, Physics and People, recommended by Andrew Lawrence
The astronomy professor says the process of scientific discovery can be slow and messy – but that reading about some of the extraordinary personalities involved brings the history alive
The best books on Science in Society, recommended by Deborah Blum
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer Deborah Blum says science is too important to be left for the scientists. She recommends books that show how much it matters in our daily lives.
The best books on Astronomers, recommended by Stuart Clark
Can’t tell your nebula from your black hole? The New Scientist writer introduces us to some of the wonders of the universe and tells the stories of astronomers who discovered them
