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Article: Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 1988
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Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study. Ed Regis, Addison-Wesley, $17.95. Had anyone suggested a year ago that generalinterest books, by and about theoretical physicists would become wildly popular, the response would undoubtedly have been, "Surely you're joking." That changed when "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," a humorous autobiographical work by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, hit The New York Times's best-seller list. It wasn't the only one. Chaos, by James Gleick, made the best-seller list earlier this year; Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time entered its 29th week on the list in midNovember, at which ...