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
Concepts
National Socialism
Science and politics
Emigration; immigration
World War II
Jews
Physics
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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