Book ID: CBB000101880

Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime (2001)

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Medawar, Jean (Author)
Pyke, David (Author)


Arcade Publishing


Publication Date: 2001
Edition Details: Foreword by Max Perutz
Physical Details: 1st U.S. ed. xx + 268 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses how England and the United States benefited from Hitler's expulsion of Germany's leading scientists in biology physics and chemistry, of which 20% were Jews.


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Review Holton, Gerald (2002) Review of "Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime". Physics Today (p. 78). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Walker, Mark
Löhnert, Peter
Deichmann, Ute
Dahn, Ryan
Wolff, Stefan L.
Timms, Edward
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Science Technology and Society
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Wiley-VCH
Wallstein Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Princeton University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
Concepts
National Socialism
Science and politics
Emigration; immigration
World War II
Jews
Physics
People
Einstein, Albert
Hahn, Otto (1879-1968)
Fischer, Emil Hermann
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von
Rüdin, Ernst
Reiche, Fritz
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
Great Britain
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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