Albert Meets America

This volume of news articles from Einstein’s first trip to America explores his rise a public figure and the creation of his celebrity persona. When a British expedition confirmed Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity in 1919, the news catapulted the German physicist to global fame. Two years later, he joined a fund-raising tour through the United States—a country he’d never seen before—gathering support for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His lectures in New York, Princeton, and Ch