Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley, NYU)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture...13 November 2019 at 4PM About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an […]