Author(s): Anita Croy

Non-Fiction

Scientists Who Changed the World is a series that looks at some of the world's greatest scientists and how their work and discoveries changed society at the time and influenced people in the future. Special "History's Story" boxes highlight achievements and events in each scientist's personal life. A timeline also shows milestones in the related field of science along with mini-bios of other scientists of the time. Albert Einstein was a scientist and mathematician who made important contributions to the field of physics. Einstein's famous Theory of Relativity changed the world's understanding of space and launched the new science of cosmology, or the study of the universe and its birth and development. Many of his ideas, such as the existence of black holes, could not be proven until after his death, when technology had improved. Book jacket.