In 1905, having derived his famous equation Eu003dmc2, Albert Einstein gave the world a powerful source of energy and opened new ways to understand the Universe. And now, more than a hundred years later, the brilliant science popularizer David Bodanis talks about this great discovery in a fascinating and simple way. The heroes of his book, as exciting as a detective story, are outstanding physicists, including Faraday, Rutherford, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Heisenberg and, of course, the brilliant Einstein.