Andrew Robinson, a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, is an author who has written extensively about the history of science, archaeology, particularly ancient scripts, and Indian culture. A King’s Scholar of Eton College, he earned a baccalaureate degree in chemistry from University College, Oxford, and another in South Asian studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He worked in publishing, television, and print journalism for two decades, serving as literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement for twelve years. Among Mr. Robinson’s twenty books are biographies of Satyajit Ray (Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, 1989 and 2004 and Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema, 2005), Rabindranath Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man, 1995 and 2008), Michael Ventris (The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris, 2002, which was made into a BBC television program and translated into Greek and Japanese), Albert Einstein (Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity, 2005, which has been translated into five languages), and Thomas Young (The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, 2006). He also wrote widely-praised studies about The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms (1995 and 2007), which was translated into nine languages, and Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts (2002 and 2009). His most recent book, The Story of Measurement, an illustrated guide to the human passion for measuring all things, was published by Thames & Hudson in 2007. Mr. Robinson’s research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy. He currently holds a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to make a comparative historical study of exceptional creativity in the arts and sciences, which is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.