Einstein on the Run

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist (2019), by Andrew Robinson, is a biographical account of Albert Einstein's half-century relationship with Britain's science, scientists, and society, focusing on his escape from Nazi Germany via Britain in 1933.[1]

Landing card for Einstein’s journey from Ostend, Belgium, to Dover, England, on 26 May 1933, with his destination address indicated as Oxford

Einstein on the Run:
How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist
Front cover
AuthorAndrew Robinson
CountryUS and UK
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAlbert Einstein
GenreBiography, history of science
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
2019
Media typePrint & audio
Pagesxvii+351
ISBN978-0-300-23476-3

The book includes a prologue, eight chapters an epilogue, notes and references, a bibliography, and an index, with 33 monochrome illustrations. It is available in hardback and paperback versions.[2] An audible version is available, narrated by Antony Ferguson.[3] Einstein's visits to the University of Oxford at the invitation of the Oxford physicist Frederick Lindemann (1st Viscount Cherwell), staying in Christ Church, and his 1931 lectures at Rhodes House in Oxford, including his preserved blackboard, are also covered.[4]

The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:

An associated event took place on 8 March 2020 at Kings Place in London as part of Jewish Book Week 2020, featuring the book's author Andrew Robinson and the astrophysicist Martin Rees.[12] The event was recorded.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist by Andrew Robinson". Goodreads. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  2. "Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist, Andrew Robinson". YaleBooks. Yale University Press. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  3. "Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist". Audible. Amazon. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  4. Robinson, Andrew (17 June 2019). "Einstein in Oxford". Physics World.
  5. Einstein On the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist. 2019. ASIN 0300234767 ASIN 0300234767.
  6. Winterburn, Emily (November 2019). "Einstein on the Run". BBC Sky at Night. No. 7247. p. 95.
  7. Pasachoff, Naomi (July 2020). "Einstein in exile". Metascience. 29 (2): 225–227. doi:10.1007/s11016-020-00503-5. S2CID 254791048.
  8. Kiser, Barbara (26 September 2012). "Einstein in Britain, worlds on the ebb, and a new angle on climate engineering: Books in brief". Nature. 573 (7775): 493. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02851-7. S2CID 202749624.
  9. Randall, Ian (December 2019). "A relative journey". Physics World. Vol. 162. p. 44.
  10. Smith), P. D. (3 April 2020). "Relative values: The private and public lives of Albert Einstein". The Times Literary Supplement. UK.
  11. Crumey, Andrew (14 February 2020). "'Einstein in Bohemia' and 'Einstein on the Run' Review: Genius Will Travel". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. "Einstein on the Run". UK: Kings Place. 8 March 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  13. "JBW 2020 – Einstein on the Run". Vimeo. Retrieved 21 December 2022.


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