History of Science Museum
Scientific-instrument museum preserving a blackboard chalked by Einstein during a lecture.
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This guide to the History of Science Museum in Oxford follows Albert Einstein through his Rhodes House lectures of May nineteen thirty-one, delivered in German, without notes, to a packed and sometimes baffled audience. It turns on a single blackboard of chalked equations about the size and age of the universe, and the dons who carried it off. Best heard standing in front of Einstein's blackboard itself.
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