When the personal becomes the political, it can have a devastating effect on those feeling the sharp end of such a vicious vendetta. Here, Thomas Harding looks at how Hitler conspired to hunt down and ...

In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had ...

There are two important anniversaries at the end of this week. Saturday, April 19th is the day the American Revolution against King George III and British colonialism began 250 years ago at Lexington ...

One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical ...

In 1934, he married Elsa von Mallen, who had given him her ... Photoelectricity is such a complex phenomenon that it took Albert Einstein to explain it, in 1905; he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

April 18 marks the death anniversary of Albert Einstein, the iconic physicist who forever transformed the way we understand the universe. Even decades after his passing in 1955, Einstein’s ...

After fleeing Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933, Albert Einstein spent the final years of his life in America.