Name: Talk: Einstein's Oxford
Start: 2024-09-26T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-26T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Bodleian Libraries

FREE, booking essential: Albert Einstein’s blackboard about the universe, chalked in Oxford, is the most popular object in the History of Science Museum. Less well known is his comic handwritten Oxford poem in the Bodleian, describing himself as a ‘barbarian’ on the ‘roam’. He lived in Oxford for periods in 1931, 1932 and 1933—latterly as a refugee from Nazism—participating in its science, music and politics, and wandering about its centre alone.
Einstein and 1930s Oxford were exquisitely matched and ill-matched, as this talk’s intimate and unfamiliar stories will reveal, thereby casting fresh light on why Einstein is the world’s most famous scientist.
Book now: https://bodwhatson.web.ox.ac.uk/event/sep24/einstein-in-oxford