Einstein's Relativity In Great Britain: From Larmor And Eddington To Penrose And Hawking: A Tale Of Physicists, Astronomers, Mathematicians And Philosophers

After studying Physics in the University of Madrid, José M Sánchez-Ron obtained a PhD at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, the University of London. He is now emeritus professor of History of Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), where he has been also reader in Theoretical Physics. He is member of the Real Academia Española, the most important institution in Spain, formed by 46 members and dedicated to the Spanish language (he is the only historian of science who ever had been admitted). Author of many articles and books on the history of XIXth and XXth century physics, especially in Spain and Great Britain, among them, together with Paul Forman as editors, National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technolog (Kluwer, 1996). He has dedicated also great efforts to the socioeconomics history of XIXth and XXh century science, of which he published a massive El poder de la ciencia. Historia socioeconómica de la ciencia de los siglos XIX y XX, which has seen three editions, each one revised. In 2015 he received he national award in essays for his book El mundo después de la revolución. La física de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.