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The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

Autor Kathleen L. Housley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 sep 2018
In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives—Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them—became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, and politics in the Third Reich and in the lives of Karl-Friedrich, his family and his colleagues, including Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Karl-Friedrich was an expert on heavy water, a component of the atomic bomb. During the war, he was caught in the middle between relatives who were trying to kill Hitler and friends who were helping Hitler build a nuclear weapon. Karl-Friedrich emerges as a complex figure—an agnostic whose brother was a renowned theologian, and a chemist who both reluctantly advised German nuclear scientists and collaborated with Paul Rosbaud, a spy for the British. Illuminating the uneasy position of science in twentieth-century Germany, The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer is the story of a man in love with chemistry, his family, and his nation, trying to do right by all of them in the midst of chaos.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319958002
ISBN-10: 3319958003
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: XX, 328 p. 18 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. The Father's Scientific World.- 3. The First World War.- 4. The Promise of Pure Science.- 5. Traveling with Polanyi.- 6. Turbulence and Conformity.- 7. Seizing the Wheel.- 8. The Beginning of Resistance.- 9. Heavy Water and the Atomic Bomb.- 10. The Summer of Decision.- 11. The Uranium Club.- 12. Steadfast to the End.- 13. Rebuilding the World.

Notă biografică

Kathleen L. Housley is the author of ten books. Her essays on what she calls the force fields between science, religion, and the arts have appeared in many publications, including Image, The Christian Century, and Metanexus.

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In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives—Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them—became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, and politics in the Third Reich and in the lives of Karl-Friedrich, his family and his colleagues, including Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Karl-Friedrich was an expert on heavy water, a component of the atomic bomb. During the war, he was caught in the middle between relatives who were trying to kill Hitler and friends who were helping Hitler build a nuclear weapon. Karl-Friedrich emerges as a complex figure—an agnostic whose brother was a renowned theologian, and a chemist who both reluctantly advised German nuclear scientists and collaborated with Paul Rosbaud, a spy for the British. Illuminating the uneasy position of science in twentieth-century Germany, The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer is the story of a man in love with chemistry, his family, and his nation, trying to do right by all of them in the midst of chaos.

Caracteristici

Presents the first biography of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer Offers a bottom-up perspective of the clash of science and ethics under the Third Reich as it played out in the lives of Karl-Friedrich and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Appeals to scholars and general readers who are interested in the history of science, quantum mechanics, the history of Nazi Germany, the philosophy of science, ethics, and the Bonhoeffers