About the Program
Historian Walter Isaacson documents the life of scientist Albert Einstein whose theories in the field of physics changed the conventional thinking at the time and shaped the future. Mr. Isaacson looks at the personal as well as the professional life of the Noble prize winning thinker and contends that his family, marriages, and religiosity assist in understanding Einstein's scientific achievements. This is the first biography on Albert Einstein that is based on his published and unpublished papers that were unsealed in 2006. Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity on March 20, 1916.