Einstein in Oxford, set to be published on September 12, is the first book to focus on the physicist’s connection to the city.
He visited for the first time in 1931 to receive an honorary degree and to give lectures on relativity and the universe.
While there, he chalked equations and diagrams on several blackboards, one of which remains a popular exhibit in Oxford’s History of Science Museum.
Einstein returned to Oxford in 1932, and then again in 1933 as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
He was deeply attracted to the city’s science, music and politics.
Author Andrew Robinson will be speaking about Einstein in Oxford at the Weston Library on September 26 from 1pm to 2pm.
The event is free to attend but booking is essential, and can be done through the Bodleian Libraries website.
The book also explores Einstein’s sense of humour and the German poem, now kept in the Bodleian Library, he wrote while staying in the college rooms formerly inhabited by mathematician and writer Lewis Carroll.
Silke Ackerman, the director of the History of Science Museum, said Mr Robinson’s book unveils “another fascinating, less familiar, episode of the Einstein story.”
Mr Robinson has written 25 books, including two on Einstein and ‘Genius: A Very Short Introduction’.