Einstein in Oxford
{{short description|2024 book by Andrew Robinson}}
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| genre = Biography, history of science
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| pub_date = 12 September 2024
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| pages = 96
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Einstein in Oxford (2024), by Andrew Robinson, is a biographical account of Albert Einstein's association with the city of Oxford, especially the University of Oxford,{{cite magazine| first=Andrew | last=Robinson | author-link=W. Andrew Robinson | title=Einstein in Oxford | magazine=Physics World | date=June 2019 | url=https://physicsworld.com/a/einstein-in-oxford/ | volume=32 | number=6 | pages=32–36 | doi=10.1088/2058-7058/32/6/35 }}{{cite journal| first=Andrew | last=Robinson | author-link=W. Andrew Robinson | title=Einstein in Oxford: the untold story of an unlikely friendship | journal=Nature | date=23 September 2024 | access-date=27 January 2025 | url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03075-0 }}{{cite journal| first=Andrew | last=Robinson | author-link=W. Andrew Robinson | title=Einstein's Oxford years | journal=Science | volume=385 | number=6713 | page=1051 | date=5 September 2024 | access-date=27 January 2025 | url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq4247 | doi=10.1126/science.adq4247 }} particularly in the areas of science, music, and politics. It was published by Bodleian Library Publishing.{{cite web| url=https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/einstein-in-oxford | title=Einstein in Oxford | work=Shop | publisher=Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | location=UK | access-date=27 January 2025 }}{{cite web| title=Einstein in Oxford | publisher=The Guardian | work=Bookshop | date=24 January 2025 | url=https://guardianbookshop.com/einstein-in-oxford-9781851246380/ }}
Content
The book includes a foreword by Silke Ackermann (Director of the History of Science Museum in Oxford), a preface, five chapters, a postscript, sources of quotations, further reading, acknowledgements, picture credits, and an index. 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 covered. The book has been endorsed by Oxford-based academics Stephen Blundell, Sir David Clary, Roger Davies, and William Whyte.
File:Einstein blackboard.jpg in Oxford, now in the History of Science Museum, Oxford.{{cite web| first=Andrew | last=Robinson | author-link=W. Andrew Robinson | title=Einstein in Oxford | publisher=History of Science Museum, Oxford | location=UK | date=2024 | access-date=27 January 2025 | url=https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/einstein-in-oxford }} The blackboard is featured in the preface of the book (pages 8–14).]]
Reception
Einstein in Oxford has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including Australian Book Review,{{cite magazine| first=Robyn | last=Arianrhod | author-link=Robyn Arianrhod | title=Proof of entanglement: Two slim, not slight books on Einstein | url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2025/1013-march-2025-no-473/13670-robyn-arianrhod-reviews-einstein-in-oxford-by-andrew-robinson-and-einstein-and-the-quantum-revolutions-by-alain-aspect | magazine=Australian Book Review | page=24–25 | issue=473 | date=March 2025 }} Oxford Alumni,{{cite web| url=https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/off-the-shelf-october-2024 | title=Off the Shelf: 2024 – Macbeth, Mindfulness, Einstein, midlife crisis, and a history of sex and Christianity | first=Richard | last=Lofthouse | work=Oxford Alumni | publisher=University of Oxford | location=UK | date=2 October 2024 | access-date=27 January 2025 }} the Oxford Mail,{{cite newspaper| url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24601795.albert-einsteins-complex-relationship-oxford-explored/ | title=Albert Einstein's complex relationship with Oxford explored | first=Ben | last=Hardy | newspaper=Oxford Mail | date=22 December 2024 | access-date=27 January 2025 }} Physics World,{{cite magazine| first=Matin | last=Durrani | title=Einstein in Oxford By Andrew Robinson | magazine=Physics World | page=46 | date=December 2024 }} and The Times Literary Supplement.{{cite news| title=A preserved blackboard: The ephemera of the physicist's daily life in Oxford | first=Michael D. | last=Gordin | newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement | location=UK | page=25 | date=24 January 2025 | url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/in-brief/einstein-in-oxford-andrew-robinson-book-review-michael-d-gordin }}
An associated talk by the author Andrew Robinson took place at the Weston Library, Oxford, in September 2024.{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723121657/https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep24/einstein-in-oxford | title=Einstein's Oxford: A 'Barbarian on the Roam' | website=Archive.org | publisher=Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | location=UK | date=September 2024 | access-date=23 July 2023 }}{{cite magazine| title=Einstein in Oxford: A “Barbarian on the Roam” | first=Andrew | last=Robinson | magazine=Bodleian Library Friends' News Magazine | publisher=Bodleian Libraries | date=Autumn 2024 | page=18 }} The book was also presented at the 2025 Oxford Literary Festival.{{cite web| title=Einstein in Oxford – Andrew Robinson introduced by Samuel Fanous | url=https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/april-2/einstein-in-oxford | publisher=Oxford Literary Festival | date=2025 | access-date=10 March 2025 }}
See also
- Einstein's Blackboard at the History of Science Museum, Oxford
- Einstein on the Run (2019 book)
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