Michael D. Gordin is Dean of the College and Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the History Department at Princeton University. A leading scholar of the history of science in modern Russia, Europe, and America, he has authored several influential works, including Einstein in Bohemia (Princeton University Press, 2020) and Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein, written by Gordin together with Diana Kormos Buchwald (Caltech), presents a concise and nuanced account of the life and work of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century. Drawing on Einstein's personal archive and several generations of assiduous scholarship, the book portrays Einstein as a man of the modern world, faced with extraordinary intellectual and existential challenges, a working scientist immersed in the epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory, but also in the organizational and mentoring activities of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Professor Gordin will be available for a book signing in Rubenstein Commons following the talk. Labyrinth Books will be on-site to offer the sale of Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein and Einstein in Bohemia.

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