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The Quantum Exodus : Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191626968
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Quantum ExodusDDC classification:
  • 623.4511909
LOC classification:
  • QC773.A1 F73 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- 1. Neutrons and Nazis -- 2. The rise of German science -- 3. Cultural cleansing -- 4. Emblematic emigrants -- 5. The fall of German science -- 6. Plagues -- 7. Abide with me -- 8. Fission mission -- 9. Gathering nuclear fuel -- 10. For in much wisdom is much grief -- 11. Science and anxiety -- Epilogue: Europe redux -- Appendix 1: A list of emigrant scientists -- Appendix 2: Sources and bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they immediately expelled Jewish academics, unwittingly changing the power balance of world science. When war came, these scientific refugees raced to engineer the atomic bomb, to prevent Nazi Germany getting there first.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- 1. Neutrons and Nazis -- 2. The rise of German science -- 3. Cultural cleansing -- 4. Emblematic emigrants -- 5. The fall of German science -- 6. Plagues -- 7. Abide with me -- 8. Fission mission -- 9. Gathering nuclear fuel -- 10. For in much wisdom is much grief -- 11. Science and anxiety -- Epilogue: Europe redux -- Appendix 1: A list of emigrant scientists -- Appendix 2: Sources and bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they immediately expelled Jewish academics, unwittingly changing the power balance of world science. When war came, these scientific refugees raced to engineer the atomic bomb, to prevent Nazi Germany getting there first.

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