TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The German Physical Society in the Third Reich : physicists between autonomy and accommodation
A2  - Hoffmann, Dieter
A2  - Walker, Mark
LA  - eng
PP  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2385568
AB  - This is a history of one of the oldest and most important scientific societies, the German Physical Society, during the Nazi regime and immediate postwar period. When Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Physical Society included prominent Jewish scientists as members, including Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein. As Jewish scientists lost their jobs and emigrated, the Society gradually lost members. In 1938, under pressure from the Nazi Ministry of Science, Education, and Culture, the Society forced out the last of its Jewish colleagues. This action was just the most prominent example of the tension between accommodation and autonomy that characterized the challenges facing physicists in the society. They strove to retain as much autonomy as possible, but tried to achieve this by accommodating themselves to Nazi policies, which culminated in the campaign by the Society's president to place physics in the service of the war effort.
SN  - 1107006848 sidottu
SN  - 9781107006843 sidottu
KW  - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - National socialism and science : Germany.
KW  - Science and state : Germany : History : 1933-1945.
KW  - fyysikot
KW  - historia
KW  - kansallissosialismi
KW  - tiede
KW  - tieteelliset seurat
KW  - tieteenhistoria
KW  - Saksa
ER  -