Peter Galison is the director of the Black Hole Initiative and the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Max Planck Prize, and the Pfizer Prize. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the capture of the first image of the supermassive black hole, M87.
"Galison provides a unique and enlightening view on the origin of
time as we know it in the modern age."
*American Scientist*
"Few books have ever made Einstein's work more accessible—or more
engrossing—for general readers."
*Booklist starred review*
"An easy-reading but penetrating book. [Galison] brings the story
of time to life as a story of wires and rails, precision maps, and
imperial ambitions, as well as a story of physics and
philosophy."
*Science*
"This is how twentieth-century science really began....Engaging,
original, and absolutely brilliant."
*James Gleick*
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