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Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson is the author of more than twenty-five books, including two books on Albert Einstein. Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity, was published in 2015 by Princeton University Press; the second book, Einstein on the Run, concerning Einstein’s half-century relationship with Britain, will be published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2019. His other books range over science and the history of science; archaeology and scripts; and Indian history and culture. They include biographies of the polymath Thomas Young (The Last Man Who Knew Everything), the linguist and archaeologist Jean-François Champollion (Cracking the Egyptian Code), and the film director Satyajit Ray (The Inner Eye). He is also a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Lancet, Nature and Science, and was literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement in London from 1994-2006. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (in chemistry) and the School of Oriental Studies in London (in area studies, South Asia), and has been a visiting fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. http://www.andrew-robinson.org