The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer : The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany / / by Kathleen L. Housley

• Autore: Housley Kathleen L
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 pages)
• Disciplina: 509.22
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945; Science - History; Europe, Central - History; History of World War II and the Holocaust; History of Science; History of Germany and Central Europe
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
• ISBN: 9783319958019; 3319958011
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910482960103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, . 2730-9738