How long does it take to read Albert Einstein?
Albrecht Fölsing
Albert Einstein by Albrecht Fölsing takes about 16 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 10 minutes
A long haul
First published 1993. 882 pages, about 242,550 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Albert Einstein's achievements are not just milestones in the history of science; decades ago they became an integral part of the twentieth-century world in which we live. Like no other modern physicist he altered and expanded our understanding of nature. Like few other scholars, he stood fully in the public eye. In a world changing with dramatic rapidity, he embodied the role of the scientist by personal example. Albrecht Folsing, relying on previously unknown sources and letters, brings Einstein's "genius" into focus. Whereas former biographies, written in the tradition of the history of science, seem to describe a heroic Einstein who fell to earth from heaven, Folsing attempts to reconstruct Einstein's thought in the context of the state of research at the turn of the century. Thus, perhaps for the first time, Einstein's surroundings come to light.
Subjects: Physicists, Biography, Biographie, Physics
