Alumni Day 2014 - Finding Einstein in a Crowd

Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Director, Fung Global Fellows Program, considers how historians and biographers have approached Albert Einstein’s life and considers another interpretation: that he was not the cloistered loner but rather a deeply sociable personality. Gordin suggests the implications for understanding both Einstein’s science, as well as the tumultuous history of the 20th century.