In 1905, having derived his famous equation E = mc2, Albert Einstein gave the world a powerful source of energy and opened up new paths to knowledge of the universe. And now, more than a hundred years later, the brilliant popularizer of science, David Bodanis, is fascinating and just talking about this great discovery. The heroes of his exciting, like a detective, books are outstanding physicists, including Faraday, Rutherford, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Heisenberg and, of course, the brilliant Einstein.