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Einstein on the Run - How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist (Hardcover)
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Einstein on the Run - How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist (Hardcover)
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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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