Hentschel, Klaus (Author)
Among the papers of Rudolf Tomaschek (1895–1966) I discovered a 30-page typescript from 1944 by his then assistant Hugo Watzlawek (1912–1995) entitled “Interatomare Energie”. Nowadays one would rather say ‘inneratomic energy’ or ‘nuclear energy’ since the typescript treats issues of nuclear engineering including its potential military uses. It presents an unfiltered, surprisingly informed view into the technocratic mindset, state of knowledge and application horizon of a “technical nuclear physicist” in the Third Reich. Watzlawek in 1944 urgently petitions for more funding for research in nuclear physics and technology, citing analogous research underway in America. The present paper places the typescript within its historical and technical context. My succinctly annotated transcription of the original text—also made freely available online—provides full accessibility to this document.
...More
Article
Holton, Gerald James;
(2022)
Farm Hall Transcripts Reconsidered
(/isis/citation/CBB966745048/)
Article
Hoffmann, Dieter;
(2022)
Farm Hall—Another Look
(/isis/citation/CBB685467561/)
Article
Cassidy, David C.;
(2022)
The Drama of Farm Hall: A Historian Ventures into Play Writing
(/isis/citation/CBB612318059/)
Book
James Mahaffey;
(2018)
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
(/isis/citation/CBB558278837/)
Book
Martijn van Calmthout;
(2018)
Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb
(/isis/citation/CBB517609321/)
Book
Williams, Hill;
(2011)
Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
(/isis/citation/CBB001211601/)
Article
Ryan Dahn;
(2022)
The Farm Hall Transcripts: The Smoking Gun That Wasn't
(/isis/citation/CBB069199273/)
Article
Mark Walker;
(2017)
Physics, History, and the German Atomic Bomb
(/isis/citation/CBB771830119/)
Article
Underwood, Martin C.;
(2011)
Joseph Rotblat's Archive: Some Anomalies and Difficulties
(/isis/citation/CBB001320777/)
Book
Steve Olson;
(2020)
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
(/isis/citation/CBB409460611/)
Book
Dolores L. Augustine;
(2018)
Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB881274321/)
Book
Fraser, Gordon;
(2012)
The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust
(/isis/citation/CBB001500182/)
Article
Hoeneveld, Friso;
van Dongen, Jeroen;
(2013)
Out of a Clear Blue Sky? FOM, The Bomb, and The Boost in Dutch Physics Funding after World War II
(/isis/citation/CBB001212893/)
Article
Malloy, Sean L.;
(2012)
“A Very Pleasant Way to Die”: Radiation Effects and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb against Japan
(/isis/citation/CBB001200575/)
Article
Joseph, Timothy;
(Fall 2009)
The Manhattan Project
(/isis/citation/CBB250192748/)
Chapter
Angelo Baracca;
(2009)
Scienza e guerra: fisica fondamentale, ricerca e realizzazione di nuove armi nucleari
(/isis/citation/CBB450782713/)
Article
Wake, Naoko;
(2011)
Gender and Science in Hiroshima's Aftermath: A Cross-Cultural Approach
(/isis/citation/CBB001210148/)
Book
Don A. Farrell;
(2018)
Tinian and the Bomb: Project Alberta and Operation Centerboard
(/isis/citation/CBB273839074/)
Book
Albert Isaac Berger;
(2016)
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear Weapons and the Transformation of Warfare
(/isis/citation/CBB511796827/)
Book
Gino Segrè;
Bettina Hoerlin;
(2017)
Il Papa della fisica: Enrico Fermi e la nascita dell’era atomica
(/isis/citation/CBB512699130/)
Be the first to comment!