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Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist
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Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist

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A highly readable (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein’s life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis

A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physicist’s life and thinking. -Publishers Weekly

Robinson has that rare knack for presenting a near-encyclopedic volume of historical information, anecdotes and contemporaneous accounts in a thoroughly delightful fashion. -Ian Randall, Physics World

In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon his Berlin home and go ‘ on the run ?

In this lively account, Andrew Robinson tells the story of the world’s greatest scientist and Britain for the first time, showing why Britain was the perfect refuge for Einstein from rumored assassination by Nazi agents. Young Einstein’s passion for British physics, epitomized by Newton, had sparked his scientific development around 1900. British astronomers had confirmed his general theory of relativity, making him internationally famous in 1919. Welcomed by the British people, who helped him campaign against Nazi anti-Semitism, he even intended to become a British citizen. So why did Einstein then leave Britain, never to return to Europe?

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 February 2021
Pages
376
ISBN
9780300254990

A highly readable (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein’s life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis

A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physicist’s life and thinking. -Publishers Weekly

Robinson has that rare knack for presenting a near-encyclopedic volume of historical information, anecdotes and contemporaneous accounts in a thoroughly delightful fashion. -Ian Randall, Physics World

In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon his Berlin home and go ‘ on the run ?

In this lively account, Andrew Robinson tells the story of the world’s greatest scientist and Britain for the first time, showing why Britain was the perfect refuge for Einstein from rumored assassination by Nazi agents. Young Einstein’s passion for British physics, epitomized by Newton, had sparked his scientific development around 1900. British astronomers had confirmed his general theory of relativity, making him internationally famous in 1919. Welcomed by the British people, who helped him campaign against Nazi anti-Semitism, he even intended to become a British citizen. So why did Einstein then leave Britain, never to return to Europe?

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 February 2021
Pages
376
ISBN
9780300254990