Style of eye biography of albert einstein

April 10, 2007 — -- Photographers camped out in front of his home, hounded him with endless questions and forced him into hiding to escape the public eye.

He wasn't a Hollywood actor, but Albert Einstein is arguably the only celebrity scholar in American history and the subject of the new biography "Einstein: His Life and Universe," by acclaimed author Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson was managing editor of Time magazine in 2000 and was largely responsible for choosing Einstein as Time's "Person of the Century." Einstein's great scientific advances, relativity and quantum theory, factored into the decision, but Isaacson said the scientist's personality also won him over.

"Einstein's science set the groundwork for all the technological advances of 20th century. His fingerprints are on everything from the laser to the atom bomb to the microchip to space travel," he said.

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