Albert Einstein
The boundless enthusiasm of Asa Briggs
A prodigy from the start, the tireless historian left his fellow academics panting behind him in a long and distinguished career
Vindictive to the last: a Nazi atrocity in Tuscany
Even in retreat in August 1944, a German posse carried out a particularly brutal triple murder at a hillside farm outside Florence in a vendetta against the Einstein family
The forgotten Einstein
Why isn’t John von Neumann better known?
Why 2019 has been a wonderful year
I received my Christmas present earlier than usual. It was a message sent via The Spectator from a gentleman who…
The joy of physics
How a book on relativity and quantum theory became a surprise hit
Memos to self
It would be perverse not to succumb to the temptation to write this review as a list. So, the first…
