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Science, politics, and exile. What Einstein's Caltech years reveal about the choices scientists face today.

Einstein was already the world's most famous scientist when he arrived in Pasadena in 1931 for the first of three visits to Caltech. He came to work with Edwin Hubble on the new evidence for an expanding universe. He also moved through Southern California's civic life, giving public talks on pacifism and international cooperation and meeting with members of Pasadena's Black and Jewish communities.

As Germany's democracy collapsed, Einstein was preparing for an emigration that became permanent. He left his last Caltech visit a refugee.

Diana Kormos-Buchwald, the Robert M. Abbey Professor of History at Caltech and director of the Einstein Papers Project, will discuss what the primary sources reveal about Einstein's years in Pasadena, how he navigated science and politics as Europe darkened, and what his example might offer today.

In conversation with Patt Morrison, longtime Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.

This event is a live virtual webinar.

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