Serving the Reich : the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler / Philip Ball.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: ix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226204574 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022620457X (cloth : alk. paper)
- Planck, Max, 1858-1947
- Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
- Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
- Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik
- National socialism and science
- Nuclear physics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- Germany
- Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- 530.0943/09043 23
- QC773.3.G3 B35 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-293) and index.
Introduction: Nobel Prize-winner with dirty hands -- As conservatively as possible -- Physics must be rebuilt -- The beginning of something new -- Intellectual freedom is a thing of the past -- Service to science must be service to the nation -- There is very likely a Nordic science -- You obviously cannot swim against the tide -- "I have seen my death!" -- As a scientist or as a man -- Hitherto unknown destructive power -- Heisenberg was mostly silent -- We are what we pretend to be -- Epilogue: We did not speak the same language.