Twins in Space
Mark Harris, 11 December 1997
Albert Einstein
by Albrecht Fölsing, translated by Ewald Osers.
Viking, 882 pp., £25, August 1997,0 670 85545 6 Show More
by Albrecht Fölsing, translated by Ewald Osers.
Viking, 882 pp., £25, August 1997,
“... unsuccessful pupil and his Greek teacher predicted that he would ‘never amount to anything’. Albrecht Fölsing points out, however, that by 1929 the legend of Einstein’s poor academic record was so widespread that the principal felt obliged to dispel this bad publicity for the school by revealing his (quite respectable) examination marks in a ... ”
