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The article focuses on Albert Einstein's time at Oxford University and the reasons behind his eventual move to Princeton. Topics include Einstein's deep admiration for British physics and his initial enthusiasm for Oxford, his dissatisfaction with Oxford's academic environment and formality, and his preference for solitude, which ultimately led him to emigrate to the United States.

These observations, wrote Einstein, were "the origin of the next great theoretical advance, which had to await, over a hundred years, the coming of Thomas Young." INSIGHTS In 1931, Albert Einstein wrote a foreword to the fourth edition of Isaac Newton's 1704 Opticks, which described Newton's experiments with, and explanations of, phenomena associated with light, including his observations of the colors of thin films. In 2023, the 250th anniversary of Young's birth, the chief lesson of his life for scientists is surely how Young made his greatest discovery, the double-slit experiment. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the exhibition "Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond" at the Wellcome Collection in London, England, on display until January 15, 2017, focusing on the history of treatment of mental illness.

The article reviews "Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime," an exhibition on the history of forensic science at the Wellcome Collection in London, England February 26-June 21, 2015.