What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I dont think Ive ever read a book that does this as well . . . Whenever theres a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs. Popular Science

Fascinating. Forbes

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends. How did this happen?

Best-selling biographer David Bodanis traces the arc of Einsteins lifefrom the skeptical, erratic student to the worlds most brilliant physicist to the fallen-from-grace celebrity. An intimate biography in which theories of the universe morph into theories of life (Times, London), Einsteins Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein todayand how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.