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The man who stalked Einstein : how Nazi scientist Philipp Lenard changed the course of history / Bruce J. Hillman, Birgit Ertl-Wagner, and Bernd C. Wagner.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: QC16.L4 H55 2015

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    "By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany's most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler's chief advisor on physics, had an impact far exceeding what the scientific community felt at the time. Indeed, their mutual antagonism affected the direction of science long after 1933, when Einstein took flight to America and changed the history of two nations. The Man Who Stalked Einstein details the tense relationship between Einstein and Lenard, their ideas and actions, during the eventful period between World War I and World War II,"--Amazon.com.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Hillman, Bruce J., author.
    Published
    Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2015]
    ©2015
    Locale
    Germany
    Contents
    Introduction
    A Note on the Differences between Lenard's and Einstein's Science
    1 Pyrrhic Victory
    2 The Heart of the Matter
    3 Familiarity Breeds Contempt
    4 An Interesting Evening Out
    5 A Disagreement between Gentlemen
    6 A Missed Opportunity
    7 Lenard in Stockholm
    8 Einstein versus the Small Popes in Uppsala
    9 Dangerous Choices
    10 Lenard and Hitler
    11 Deutsche Physik
    12 Academic Impurities
    13 Some Say by Fire, Others Ice
    Epilogue: Unapologetic Lives
    Bibliography
    Acknowledgments
    Index
    About the Authors.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Ertl-Wagner, Birgit, 1970- author.
    Wagner, Bernd C., 1968- author.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (page 191-199) and index.
    Introduction -- A Note on the Differences between Lenard's and Einstein's Science -- 1 Pyrrhic Victory -- 2 The Heart of the Matter -- 3 Familiarity Breeds Contempt -- 4 An Interesting Evening Out -- 5 A Disagreement between Gentlemen -- 6 A Missed Opportunity -- 7 Lenard in Stockholm -- 8 Einstein versus the Small Popes in Uppsala -- 9 Dangerous Choices -- 10 Lenard and Hitler -- 11 Deutsche Physik -- 12 Academic Impurities -- 13 Some Say by Fire, Others Ice -- Epilogue: Unapologetic Lives -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781493010011
    1493010018
    Physical Description
    xvi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

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