Principal Sources

Books

[Berlin-1] Leslie Berlin, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, Oxford University Press, 2005.

[Clark] Ronald W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times, World Publishing Co., 1971.

[Einstein-1] Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (English tr.), Methuen & Co., 1916.

[Einstein-2] Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta, Cambridge University Press, 1938.

[Einstein-3] Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, Philosophical Library, 1950.

[Einstein-4] Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (Carl Seelig, Ed.), Crown Publishers, 1954.

[Gillam] Scott Gillam, Steve Jobs, Apple iCon, Abdo Publishing, 2012.

[Hertzfeld] Andy Hertzfeld, Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made, O’Reilly Media, 2004.

[Hoffmann] Banesh Hoffmann (with Helen Dukas), Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel, The Viking Press, 1972.

[Isaacson-1] Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007.

[Isaacson-2] Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, Simon & Schuster, 2011.

[Jobs-MSW] Steve Jobs, Leslie Berlin (Ed.), Make Something Wonderful (eBook), Collection of Steve Jobs speeches, interviews, and correspondence, The Steve Jobs Archive website, 2023.

[Levy-1] Stephen Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything, Viking, 1994.

[Levy-2] Stephen Levy, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, Simon & Schuster, 2006.

[Linzmayer] Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company, No Starch Press, 2004.

[Malone-1] Michael S. Malone, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company, Harper Business, 2014.

[Malone-2] Michael S. Malone, The Microprocessor: A Biography, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

[Merchant] Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, Little, Brown and Company 2017.

[Pais] Abraham Pais, Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 1982.

[Reid] T. R. Reid, The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution, Simon & Schuster, 1985.

[Schlender] Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, Crown Business, 2015.

Websites & Videos

[CHM-Collection] Computer History Museum website. Extensive archive of Silicon Valley history including oral histories, lab notebooks, etc.

[Einstein-Web] Einstein Relatively Easy website. Good reference site for Einstein’s relativity theories and quantum mechanics.

[F-Silicon-Valley] Randall MacLowry (writer-director), Silicon Valley: Where the Future Was Born. PBS American Experience documentary, Season 25, Episode 5. Originally broadcast in 2013.

[Mac-Folklore] Folklore website: The Original Macintosh—Anecdotes about the Development of Apple’s Original Macintosh, and the People Who Made it (123 stories).

[Nobel-Prizes] Nobel Foundation website. Official Nobel website with information on Nobel Prize winners.

[Princeton-Papers] Albert Einstein et al., The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (16 volumes, 1869–1929), Princeton University Press.

[Stanford-Silicon] Stanford University, Silicon Genesis: Oral Histories of Semiconductor Technology. Video interviews with pioneers of Silicon Valley.