Serving the reich : the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler / Philip Ball
2013, First Edition. London : The Bodley Head. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #273900
ISBN: 1847922481
Physical description; ix, 303 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm. Summary; 'Serving the Reich' tells the story of three world-renowned physicists working under Hitler against the background of the attempt by Nazi scientists to create 'German physics' - an Aryan science that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', in particular Einstein's theory of relativity. Subjects; Planck, Max 1858-1947. Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William) 1884-1966. Heisenberg, Werner 1901-1976.
Price: €9.95