In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, interview John D. Norton, distinguished professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Norton recounts his experiences as a child of Jewish refugees who emigrated to Australia after World War II. He discusses his early interest in science and his original intention to pursue a career as a scientist before he became fascinated by issues in the philosophy of science as a graduate student at the University of New South Wales, and the deep influence of Kuhn on his development as a scholar. He describes his dissertation and subsequent and sustained research interest on Einstein and general relativity. Norton describes his initial work in the Einstein Papers at Princeton where he continued to work with documents that had never been systematically analyzed before. He explains the circumstances leading to his decision to join the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and he describes the interplay of science and philosophy in his department. Toward the end of the interview, Norton expounds on a variety of theoretical and philosophical ideas that emanate from the history of science, and from quantum mechanics specifically, and he describes the importance of being able to convey Einsteins contributions to a broad audience.