Article ID: CBB000780174

Physik und Politik in der frühen Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Max Born, Werner Heisenberg und Pascual Jordan als politische Grenzgänger (2007)

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Keywords Election campaigns • German rearmament • Peace movement • Physics • Politics • Public • Quantum mechanics • Responsibility of scientists • Sciences; XXth century. • Bundesrepublik Deutschland • Friedensbewegung • Naturwissenschaften • Öffentlichkeit • Physik • Politik • Quantenmechanik • Verantwortung von Wissenschaftlern • Wahlkampf • Wiederbewaffnung; XX Jh. Abstract Physics and Politics in the Early Federal Republic of Germany. Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Pascual Jordan between Scientific and Political Discourse. - Contrasting the historiography of two major developments in 20th century German history, the creation of quantum mechanics in 1925 and the dispute on the nuclear armament of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, the question is raised to which extent the scientific culture was able to bridge political disagreement within the German physicists' community. A twofold story of the private and public exchange between Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Pascual Jordan among others on the scientists' position to nuclear armament on the one hand and the writing of the history of quantum mechanics on the other hand displays different types of relating scientific work and moral responsibility. Neither politics nor science went on unaltered after the disputes between physics and politics in the early Federal Republic of Germany.

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Description “Contrasting the historiography of ... the creation of quantum mechanics in 1925 and the dispute on the nuclear armament of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, the question is raised to which extent the scientific culture was able to bridge political disagreement within the German physicists' community.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Singh, Rajinder
Born, Max
Beller, Mara
David C. Clary
Adolfo Verson
Leyla Joaquim
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Biographies
Professions and professionalization
Scientists
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Germany
United States
China
Munich (Germany)
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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