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SERVING THE REICH
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF PHYSICS UNDER HITLER |
| By: |
Philip Ball |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448155924 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448155927 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
10 October, 2013 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Tells the story of physics under Hitler. Mixing history, science and biography, this book presents an exploration of moral choices under a totalitarian regime. It includes human dilemmas, failures to take responsibility, 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 apolitical 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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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