Erwin Finlay Freundlich, Einstein's Collaborator – by Mike Frost
Erwin Finlay Freundlich, Einstein's Collaborator - a talk by Mike Frost
Erwin Finlay Freundlich was a German astronomer. In the early years of his career he was a colleague of Albert Einstein, and was closely involved in the calculations and observations which proved Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
He then pursued a peripatetic career in Berlin, Istanbul and Prague. As World War 2 loomed, his family faced a terrifying journey across Europe to escape Hitler's clutches. Freundlich ended up in Scotland, where he spent the rest of his academic career at St Andrews University.
Erwin's is a life entwined in the great movements of the twentieth century - political, social, scientific and cultural. I've worked with his family and with people who knew him at St Andrews to bring you his story.
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