Ebook: Einstein Up in Smoke

Physics in Perspective, Vol. 17, P. 354–360, 2016.Albert Einstein’s biographers have not explained why he developed the abdominal aortic aneurysm that led to his death. Early conjectures proposed that it was caused by syphilis, without accurate evidence. The present article gives evidence to the contrary, and argues that the principal cause of Einstein’s death was smoking.