Serving the Reich
Subtitle: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler
By: Philip Ball
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780226204574
Subjects: Nuclear physics; National socialism and science; Science; World War, 1939-1945; History; Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Nobel Prize-winner with dirty hands"; title: "As conservatively as possible"; title: "Physics must be rebuilt"; title: "The beginning of something new"; title: "Intellectual freedom is a thing of the past"; title: "Service to science must be service to the nation"; title: "There is very likely a Nordic science"; title: "You obviously cannot swim against the tide"; title: "I have seen my death!"; title: "As a scientist or as a man"; title: "Hitherto unknown destructive power"; title: "Heisenberg was mostly silent"; title: "We are what we pretend to be"; title: Epilogue: "We did not speak the same language."