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Einstein on the run : how Britain saved the world's greatest scientist / / Andrew Robinson



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Autore: Robinson Andrew Visualizza persona
Titolo: Einstein on the run : how Britain saved the world's greatest scientist / / Andrew Robinson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages)
Disciplina: 530.092
Soggetto topico: Dwellings
Housing
Soggetto geografico: England
Great Britain
Grossbritannien
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PROLOGUE. A Wanderer on the Face of the Earth -- CHAPTER ONE. The Happiest Thought of My Life -- CHAPTER TWO. Hats Off to the Fellows! From a Swiss Jew -- CHAPTER THREE. A Stinking Flower in a German Buttonhole -- CHAPTER FOUR. God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe -- CHAPTER FIVE. A Barbarian among the Holy Brotherhood in Tails -- CHAPTER SIX. The Reality of Nature and the Nature of Reality -- CHAPTER SEVEN. On the Run -- CHAPTER EIGHT. I Vill a Little T'ink -- EPILOGUE. An Old Gypsy in a Quaint and Ceremonious Village -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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?
Titolo autorizzato: Einstein on the run  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-24887-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793703403321
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