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Einstein in Oxford

17 Jun 2019
Taken from the June 2019 issue of Physics World.

Amid growing political unrest in Germany, Albert Einstein paid three short visits to Oxford in the early 1930s. Andrew Robinson reveals why this celebrated physicist travelled to Britain and how Einstein seduced – and then shocked – his audiences with his new thinking about how science works

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Historic moment: On 23 May 1931 Einstein received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. (Courtesy: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo )
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Andrew Robinson is the author of 25 books, including Einstein: a Hundred Years of Relativity (2015 Princeton University Press) and Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist, to be published by Yale University Press in September 2019, e-mail andrew@andrew.robinson.org
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