Weimar culture and quantum mechanics : selected papers by Paul Forman and contemporary perspectives on the Forman thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Scientific internationalism and the Weimar physicists :…”
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Science and ideology : a comparative history /

Table of Contents: “…Weaving networks : the University of Jena in the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the postwar East German state /…”
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism /

Table of Contents: “…Adolf Butenandt between science and politics: from the Weimar Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany /…”
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Imagining the nation in nature : landscape preservation and German identity, 1885-1945 / by Lekan, Thomas M.

Table of Contents: “…Nature's Homelands: The Origins of Landscape Preservation, 1885-1914 -- The Militarization of Nature and Heimat, 1914-1923 -- The Landscape of Modernity in the Weimar Era -- From Landscape to Lebensraum: Race and Environment under Nazism -- Constructing Nature in the Third Reich.…”
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Quantum generations : a history of physics in the twentieth century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siecle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures -- Einstein's relativity, and others' -- A revolution that failed -- Physics in industry and war -- Science and politics in the Weimar republic -- Quantum jumps -- The rise of nuclear physics -- From two to many particles -- Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics -- Eddington's dream and other heterodoxies -- Physics and the new dictatorships -- Brain drain and brain gain -- From uranium puzzles to Hiroshima -- Nuclear themes -- Militarization and megatrends -- Particle discoveries -- Fundamental theories -- Cosmology and the renaissance of relativity -- Elements of solid state physics -- Engineering physics and quantum electronics -- Science under attack--physics in crisis? …”

Reenchanted science holism in German culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler / by Harrington, Anne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…World War I and Its Aftermath: Science as Cultural Critique -- Chapter Two: Biology against Democracy and the ""Gorilla-Machine -- On the Way to a Biology of Subjects -- Scientists in Their Soap Bubbles: Uexktill 's Kantian Challenge to Science -- Revitalizing Life: Umweltlehre and the Vitalist-Mechanist Controversy -- The Shocks of World War I and Weimar -- Toward a ""Biology of the State -- Uexkiill on the ""Jewish Question -- The Fight against the ""Gorilla-Machine -- Uexkiill's Relationship to National Socialism -- Chapter Three: World War I and the Search for God in the Nervous System…”
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Softwareentwicklung von Kopf bis Fuss / by Pilone, Dan

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A mathematician's journeys : Otto Neugebauer and modern transformations of ancient science / by Proust, Christine, Steele, John M.

Table of Contents: “…Otto Neugebauer in Göttingen: Aiming at Modernizing Mathematics Neugebauer at the End of the Republic of Weimar: Introducing Modern Forms of Mathematical Reviewing via Zentralblatt in 1931; A Preliminary Appraisal of Neugebauer's Weltanschaung in Weimar; Neugebauer's Flight from Nazi Germany to Copenhagen in the 1930s; The "Zentralblatt Affair," the Foundation of Mathematical Reviews, and Neugebauer's Role in Both; Growing Attention in America and Support for Neugebauer's Historical Research during the 1930s and 1940s, in Particular by the Rockefeller Foundation.…”
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The green and the brown : a history of conservation in Nazi Germany / by Uekötter, Frank, 1970-

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Quantum Generations : A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Fin-de-siecle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures -- Einstein's relativity, and others' -- A revolution that failed -- Physics in industry and war -- Science and politics in the Weimar republic -- Quantum jumps -- The rise of nuclear physics -- From two to many particles -- Philosophical implications of quantum mechanics -- Eddington's dream and other heterodoxies -- Physics and the new dictatorships -- Brain drain and brain gain -- From uranium puzzles to Hiroshima -- Nuclear themes -- Militarization and megatrends -- Particle discoveries -- Fundamental theories -- Cosmology and the renaissance of relativity -- Elements of solid state physics -- Engineering physics and quantum electronics -- Science under attack -- physics in crisis? …”
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NMR spectroscopy of glycoconjugates /

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism /

Table of Contents: “…highlighting the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's general administration in the Third Reich / Rudiger Hachtmann -- "No time to debate and ask questions"-forced labor for science in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 1939-1945 / Bernhard Strebel and Jens-Christian Wagner -- Adolf Butenandt between science and politics: from the Weimar republic to the federal republic of Germany / Wolfgang Schieder -- Brain research and the murder of the sick: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, 1937-1945 / Hans-Walter Schmuhl -- Two hundred blood samples from Auschwitz: a nobel laureate and the link to Auschwitz / Achim Trunk -- Racial purity, stable genes, and sex differences: gender in the making of genetic concepts by Richard Goldschmidt and Fritz Lenz, 1916-1936 / Helga Satzinger -- Kog-Sagyz--a vital war reserve / Susanne Heim -- Raw and advanced materials for an autarkic Germany: textile research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society / Gunther Luxbacher -- Political networking and scientific modernization: botanical research at the KWI for biology and its place / Bernd Gausemeier -- Ideology armaments, and resources: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research and the "German Metals," 1933-1945 / Helmut Maier -- Calculation, measurement, and leadership: war research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937-1945 / Moritz Epple -- Chemical weapons research in national socialism: the collaboration of the Kaiser Wilhelm institutes with the military and industry / Florian Schmaltz -- Nuclear weapons and reactor research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics / Mark Walker -- "Whitewash culture": how the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society dealt with the Nazi past / Carola Sachse -- The predecessor: the uneasy rapprochement between Carl Neuberg and Adolf Butenandt after 1945 / Michael Shuring.…”
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The green and the brown : a history of conservation in Nazi Germany / by Uekötter, Frank, 1970-

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Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung /

Table of Contents: “…Die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft im nationalsozialistischen Kontext / Mark Walker -- Die Naturforscherversammlung in Nauheim in September 1920 : eine Einführung in das Wissenschaftsleben der Weimarer Republik / Paul Forman -- Rahmenbedingungen und Autoritäten der Physikergemeinschaft im Dritten Reich / Richard H. …”
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism /

Table of Contents: “…highlighting the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's general administration in the Third Reich / Rudiger Hachtmann -- "No time to debate and ask questions"-forced labor for science in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 1939-1945 / Bernhard Strebel and Jens-Christian Wagner -- Adolf Butenandt between science and politics: from the Weimar republic to the federal republic of Germany / Wolfgang Schieder -- Brain research and the murder of the sick: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, 1937-1945 / Hans-Walter Schmuhl -- Two hundred blood samples from Auschwitz: a nobel laureate and the link to Auschwitz / Achim Trunk -- Racial purity, stable genes, and sex differences: gender in the making of genetic concepts by Richard Goldschmidt and Fritz Lenz, 1916-1936 / Helga Satzinger -- Kog-Sagyz--a vital war reserve / Susanne Heim -- Raw and advanced materials for an autarkic Germany: textile research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society / Gunther Luxbacher -- Political networking and scientific modernization: botanical research at the KWI for biology and its place / Bernd Gausemeier -- Ideology armaments, and resources: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research and the "German Metals," 1933-1945 / Helmut Maier -- Calculation, measurement, and leadership: war research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937-1945 / Moritz Epple -- Chemical weapons research in national socialism: the collaboration of the Kaiser Wilhelm institutes with the military and industry / Florian Schmaltz -- Nuclear weapons and reactor research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics / Mark Walker -- "Whitewash culture": how the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society dealt with the Nazi past / Carola Sachse -- The predecessor: the uneasy rapprochement between Carl Neuberg and Adolf Butenandt after 1945 / Michael Shuring.…”
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Personal recollections

Table of Contents: “…Stepping Stones -- Building Bridges; Between two wars; The painful transition from the fragile Weimar Republic to the tyranny of the Third Reich; Chemistry in Munich: Richard Willstätter and Heinrich Wieland; 'Kristallnacht' or the 'Night of Broken Glass'; Dissertation on the toxin of the deathcap; The end of the war; Harvard University, 1947-1950…”
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Through the lion gate : a history of the Berlin Zoo / by Bruce, Gary, 1969-

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Einstein's opponents : the public controversy about the theory of relativity in the 1920s / by Wazeck, Milena

Table of Contents: “…1.5 The anti-academic attitude and dissociation from academic research1.6 Provisional appraisal of world riddle solving; ; Characteristics of world riddle solver theories; The world riddle solvers; 2 The confrontation with the theory of relativity; 2.1 The triumphal march of the theory of relativity in the public sphere; The newspaper environment in the Weimar Republic; The theory of relativity in popular culture; 2.2 The mental block to reception; 2.3 The defensive attitude to the "attack" of modern physics; 3 The debate on the content of the theory of relativity.…”
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Quantum generations : a history of physics in the twentieth century / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Science and politics in the Weimar republic : Science policy and financial support ; International relations ; The physics community ; Zeitgeist and the physical worldview -- 11. …”
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Chemiker im "Dritten Reich" : die Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft und der Verein Deutscher Chemiker im NS-Herrschaftsapparat / by Maier, Helmut

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Geleitwort; Vorwort; 1: Einleitung; 1.1 Gründerzeiten der Chemie (1850-1900); 1.2 Die Chemiker des Kaisers (1900-1919); 1.3 Weimarer Krisenjahre (1919-1933); 2: Gleichschaltung -- ohne zwangsweise Eingriffe (1933-1934); 2.1 Machtkämpfe: Robert Ley, Gottfried Feder und die NS-Aktivisten; 2.2 Selbstgleichschaltung und Beitritte des VDCh zu NS-Organisationen; 2.3 Gleichschaltung und Arisierung der DChG (1933-1934); 2.4 Reichs-Chemiker-Kammer, Bilderstürmer und Burgfrieden.…”
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