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  • 200 years KIT

    100 objects. Parts of the whole. Selected objects from the history of the KIT

    by Klaus Nippert, Andrea Stengel, Christoph Engel ...
    To mark the 200th anniversary of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), its history is being told through 100 selected objects. Proposals from the entire institute were submitted in response to a "Call for Objects." The curators Klaus Nippert and Andrea Stengel provide historical classifications of the objects with regard to their role in research, teaching, and development. The catalogue ... Read more

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    The Origins of the Digital Universe

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  • Sisters in Science

    How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History

    by Olivia Campbell ...
    The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi GermanyIn the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no ... Read more

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  • The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

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  • Beyond Uncertainty

    Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

    by David C. Cassidy ...
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  • Nazi Science

    Myth, Truth, And The German Atomic Bomb

    by Mark Walker ...
    In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb. Walker meticulously draws on hundreds of original documents to examine the role of German scientists in the rise and fall of the Third Reich. He investigates whether most German scientists during Hitler's ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Flying Saucers

    A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War

    by Henry Stevens ...
    WWII expert Stevens shows us the incredible and suppressed technology of the Third Reich and their desire to create highly advanced wingless aircraftyes, flying saucers! Learn why the Schriever-Habermohl project was actually two projects and read the written statement of a German test pilot who actually flew one of these saucers; about the Leduc engine, the key to Dr. Miethes saucer designs; how ... Read more

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  • The Responsibility of Science

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its responsibility; and third, normative versions of scientific responsibility. The questions and problems dealt with include science as a profession, ... Read more

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  • Lise Meitner

    A Life in Physics

    by Ruth Lewin Sime ...
    Series Book 11 - California Studies in the History of Science
    Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to ... Read more

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  • Tracing the Atom

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    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
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  • Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew

    by Dietrich Stoltzenberg ...
    This biography of Fritz Haber, now abridged by the author and translated into English, illuminates the life of one of the most gifted yet controversial figures of the twentieth century. Haber, a brilliant physical chemist, carried out pioneering research in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and won the Nobel Prize for his synthesis of ammonia, a process essential for synthetic fertilizer — and ... Read more

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