The Quantum Exodus

Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-959215-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, their initial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather, their aim was to refine German culture: Jewish professors and teachers at fine universities were sacked. Atomic science had attracted a lot of Jewish talent, and as Albert Einstein and other quantum exiles scattered, they realized that they held the key to a weapon of unimaginable
power. Convinced that their gentile counterparts in Germany had come to the same conclusion, and having witnessed what the Nazis were prepared to do, the exiles were afraid. They had to get to the Atomic Bomb first. The Nazis meanwhile had acquired a more pressing objective: their persecution of the Jews
had evolved into extermination. Two dreadful projects - the Bomb and the Holocaust - became locked in a grisly race.

Zielgruppe

General readers interested in science, twentieth-century history, Jewish history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Neutrons and Nazis
2: The Rise of German Science
3: Cultural Cleansing
4: Emblematic Emigrants
5: The Fall of German Science
6: Plagues
7: Abide With Me
8: Fission Mission
9: Gathering Nuclear Fuel
10: For in Much Wisdom is Much Grief
11: Science and Anxiety
12: Epilogue - Europe redux
Appendix, Bibliography and Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Fraser, Gordon
Gordon Fraser was for many years the in-house editor at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. His books on popular science and scientists include Cosmic Anger, a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim Nobel scientist, and Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror. He is also the editor of The New Physics for the 21st Century and The Particle Century. After undergraduate studies at Imperial College, London, he went on to a PhD in theoretical particle physics, and has worked as a research scientist as well as a journalist. He lives in France.

Gordon Fraser (the late) was for many years the in-house editor at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. His books on popular science and scientists include Cosmic Anger, a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim Nobel scientist, and Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror. He is also the editor of The New Physics for the 21st Century and The Particle Century. After undergraduate studies at Imperial College,
London, he went on to a PhD in theoretical particle physics, and has worked as a research scientist as well as a journalist. He lives in France.