Isaacson to deliver Rothschild Lecture
Best-selling author and journalist Walter Isaacson will present the 2013 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, “The Genius of Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin,” on April 8 at the Radcliffe Gymnasium. Sponsored by Harvard’s Department of the History of Science, the lecture will begin at 6 p.m. It is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. Isaacson, currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is the former chairman and CEO of CNN, former managing editor of Time, and best-selling author of a number of biographies, including “Einstein: His Life and Universe” (2007), “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” (2003), “Kissinger: A Biography” (1992), and “Steve Jobs” (2011). Recalling when Jobs approached him about writing a biography, Isaacson wrote, “I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half-jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor...