
Einstein on the Run
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In late 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics, 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"?
This lively account tells the story of the world's greatest scientist's time in Britain for the first time, showing why the country was the perfect refuge for Einstein from rumored assassination plots 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?
"A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physicist's life and thinking." - Publishers Weekly
"A marvelous job of pulling new and interesting material out of the Einstein archives... I suspect that even readers who have devoured many books about Einstein and are already familiar with his interactions with the English... will find much to learn and enjoy." - Metascience Journal
"Robinson has that rare knack for presenting a near-encyclopedic volume of historical information, anecdotes and contemporaneous accounts in a thoroughly delightful fashion." - Physics World
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Andrew Robinson has written more than twenty-five books, including Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity, The Last Man Who Knew Everything, and Genius: A Very Short Introduction. He also contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines.
Content
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER ONE
- early years in germany
- education and employment in switzerland
- special relativity
- quantum theory
- general relativity
- CHAPTER TWO
- relativity at oxford and cambridge
- enter arthur eddington
- solar eclipse expeditions and relativity
- general relativity confirmed
- fame for general relativity and its author
- first visit to england
- CHAPTER THREE
- jewishness and anti-semitism
- for and against zionism
- visit to palestine
- pacifism and the league of nations
- CHAPTER FOUR
- evolution of the quantum concept
- wave/particle duality and atomic structure
- debating quantum mechanics
- unified field theory
- cosmology and the expanding universe
- CHAPTER FIVE
- introducing frederick lindemann
- oxford and the rhodes memorial lectures
- blackboard matters
- honorary doctorate from oxford
- music and art with margaret deneke
- visitor at christ church
- physics, pacifism, sports and wandering in oxford
- elected 'student' of christ church
- CHAPTER SIX
- the coming to power of the nazis
- introducing oliver locker-lampson
- return to oxford
- herbert spencer lecture in oxford
- mathematics, physics and reality
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- offers from universities in many countries
- conversation with winston churchill
- distinguished visitor at the house of commons
- renunciation of pacifism
- death threats from nazi extremists
- locker-lampson to the rescue
- visit from jacob epstein
- rejection of communism
- mass meeting in london on behalf of academic refugees
- departure for america
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- establishment at princeton among fellow european exiles
- nuclear fission and the atomic bomb
- friendship and debate with max born across the atlantic
- isolated from, or involved with, fellow physicists?
- drawn into politics by nuclear weapons and the cold war
- the russell-einstein manifesto
- EPILOGUE
- anglophile, or not?
- departure from england
- Notes and References
- Bibliography
- Index
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