Einstein Revealed 2x55

NOVA presents a penetrating profile of Albert Einstein, who contributed more than any other scientist to our modern vision of physical reality. This films traces his extraordinary rise from a student who flunked his engineering exams to the world’s most renowned physicist—a transformation that took barely a decade. What was the secret of Einstein’s scientific creativity? How did a lowly patent clerk without regular access to academic literature or other scientists come up with three revolutionary theories in the single “miracle” year of 1905? This film draws on the latest scholarly studies of Einstein’s private life to reveal a complex personality who was sometimes an unscrupulous flirt and at other times icy and remote from the women who supported his genius.