Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, currently serves as Chair of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society. In collaboration with his research team, he investigates structural changes in systems of knowledge, including the revolutions of modern physics in the early twentieth century. Apart from the seminal work on The Genesis of General Relativity (Springer, 2007), this research has also led, among other publications, to a series of books with Princeton University Press, including Relativity: the Special and the General Theory, 100th Anniversary Edition (2015), The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein’s “The Foundation of General Relativity” Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein’s Masterpiece (2015), and The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein’s Princeton Lectures (2017). A book investigating Einstein’s Autobiographical Notes will appear in 2019.
Hanoch Gutfreund is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1966 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has held the Andre Aisenstadt Chair in theoretical physics since 1985. He has previously held various academic and administrative positions at the University – head of the Physics Institute, head of the Advanced Studies Institute, rector and president. He was among the initiators and founders of the Center for Neural Computation and is currently a member of the Center. Prof. Gutfreund is the academic director of the Einstein Archives and is the University’s appointee responsible for Albert Einstein’s intellectual property; he heads the executive committee of the Israel Science Foundation. He has recently coauthored, with Jürgen Renn, three books on Einstein and his theory of relativity.
