Book ID: CBB080733772

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist (2019)

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Robinson, Andrew (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 376 pp.
Language: English

The first 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 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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Authors & Contributors
Wolff, Stefan L.
Polak, Paweł
Graf-Grossmann, Claudia
Brewer, William D.
Greco, Pietro
Margriet van der Heijden
Concepts
Physics
Science and society
Mathematics
National Socialism
Biographies
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century
Places
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
Netherlands
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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