Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn’t a saint | Philip Ball
by Philip Ball from on (#3S9FD)
The row over racist remarks made by Einstein says more about the pedestals we put great scientists on than the man himself
Was Albert Einstein racist? In pondering the disobliging remarks he made about Chinese and Japanese people in the private diaries he kept about his travels to east Asia in 1922-3, just published by Princeton University Press, it's not a particularly helpful question.
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