Forced Migration and Scientific Change
Subtitle: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor); Alfons Söllner (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521497411
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Germany; Intellectual Life (General); United States; History - General History; History: World; Great Britain; Europe - Germany; Popular Culture - General; Germans--United States--Intellectual life; History / Europe / General; Brain drain; Europe - General; Germans; History
First sentence: Many emigration specialists maintain that the loss of approximately 2,000 scientists by Germany between 1933 and 1945 completely shattered that country's basis for scientific research.
Description: The dismissal of civil servants on racial or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. Did the "exodus of reason" lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how should that change be characterized? The essays in this book present answers to these questions, and contribute to the comparative study of science in culture.