David Bodanis - E=mc2

I am half way through it and I am loving it.
they made a documentary too : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/

http://www.davidbodanis.com/pages/emc2_pg.html


By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will...feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study. I didn't know I could know so much.
- Fay Weldon, Book of year, Washington Post