The book has received many reviews and, the year after its initial publication, it won both the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction, in Science (Hardcover), and the 1983 Science Writing Award. Considered very popular for a science book, the biography sold tens of thousands of copies of both paperback and hardcover versions in its first year. Pais later released a sequel to the book in 1994 titled Einstein Lived Here and, after his death in 2000, the University Press released a posthumous reprint of the biography in 2005, with a new foreword by Roger Penrose. Originally published in English in the United States and the United Kingdom, the book has translations in over a dozen languages. Pais, renowned for his work in theoretical particle physics, was a friend of Einstein's at the Institute for Advanced Study in his early career. This was not the first popular biography of Einstein, but it was the first to focus on his scientific research as opposed to his life as a popular figure. First published in 1982 by Oxford University Press, the book is one of the most acclaimed biographies of the scientist. Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein is a biography of Albert Einstein written by Abraham Pais.
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