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Einstein as you’ve never seen him before

18 Jan 2023

Andrew Robinson reviews Einstein: the Man and His Mind by Gary S Berger and Michael DiRuggiero

Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore
Meeting of minds Albert Einstein encountered many great figures during his lifetime, including the Indian Nobel-prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. They met several times in 1930, first at Einstein’s lakeside estate in Caputh near Berlin, then in New York, where they discussed the nature of reality. (Photograph by Martin Vos. Originally published in New York Times Magazine, 10 August 1930. Taken from Einstein: the Man and His Mind by Gary S Berger and Michael DiRuggiero. Courtesy: Damiani.)
In November 1922, just over a century ago, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Tha

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Andrew Robinson is the author of Einstein: a Hundred Years of Relativity and Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist
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