Serving the Reich the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler /
"After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye,...
| Main Author: | Ball, Philip, 1962- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
ix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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'.