Book ID: CBB001210224

Protest der Physiker: die “Göttinger Erklärung” von 1957 (2011)

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Lorenz, Robert (Author)


Transcript Verlag


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 400 pp.
Language: German

Google Translation of description: In the spring of 1957, operated 18 nuclear physicist, an ancient method of making policy. They wrote a political manifesto, the "Göttingen Declaration", with the peace, they became icons of the anti-nuclear protests moved. Robert Lawrence explores the political traits of the declared non-politician, examines their motives and effect. He asks why venerable Nobel laureates such as Max Born, Otto Hahn and Werner Heisenberg publicly attacked the federal government, and highlights how the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was able to rise to the prominent "philosopher of peace"

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Description On the anti-nuclear protests of German physicists.


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Review Forstner, Christian (2012) Review of "Protest der Physiker: die “Göttinger Erklärung” von 1957". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (p. 172). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dörries, Matthias
Cassidy, David C.
David C. Clary
Dahn, Ryan
Adolfo Verson
You, Zhanhong
Concepts
Science and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Political activists and activism
Physics
Science and society
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Japan
Munich (Germany)
Institutions
Istanbul Universitesi
Federation of American Scientists
Royal Society of London
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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