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Einstein with Edwin Hubble in California (1931)

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Colourized 1931 photograph of Einstein with Humason, Hubble, St. John, Michelson, Campbell and Adams (Photo: Getty Images)

Einstein stayed in Pasadena, California as a visiting professor at Caltech for three winter terms, in 1931, ‘32 and ‘33. According to the Caltech Archive, he lived in a bungalow at 707 South Oakland Avenue in 1931 and in the “Einstein suite” of Caltech’s faculty club ‘The Athenaeum’ during the winters of 1932 and ‘33. Read more about Einstein’s visits to America here:

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Einstein's Emigration to America (1932)
In May of 1932, a viciously anti-Semetic illustrated brochure entitled Juden Sehen Dich An (“Jews are Watching You”) featured Einstein in its prologue alongside some sixty other prominant (alleged and actual) Jewish intellectuals (Robinson, 2019a p. 225). Written by a close collaborator of Josef Goebbels, the author of the brochure included a photograph of Einstein featuring the caption…
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He first arrived via boat in San Diego on New Years Eve, 1930. His first appearance at an official Caltech event was a dinner on the 15th of January 1931. In attendence were over 200 members of the California Institute Associates, including cosmologist Richard Tolman (1881-1948), physicist Paul Epstein (1883-1966), “Martian” Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963) (read: The Martians of Budapest) and Nobel Laureate Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931), who would pass away only a few months later. Also there, pictur…

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