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SERVING THE REICH
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF PHYSICS UNDER HITLER |
| By: |
Philip Ball |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099581647 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099581642 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
9 October, 2014 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Tells the story of physics under Hitler. In an exploration of moral choices under a totalitarian regime, this title deals with human dilemmas, failures to take responsibility and three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology. |
| Synopsis: |
Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. After the war most scientists in Germany maintained they had been a political or even resisted the regime: Debye claimed that he had gone to America in 1940 to escape Nazi interference in his research; Heisenberg and others argued that they had deliberately delayed production of the atomic bomb. In a gripping exploration of moral choices under a totalitarian regime, here are human dilemmas, failures to take responsibility and three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014 |
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Returnable |