The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany
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Kathleen L. Housley
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The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9783319958019
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CHF 85.30
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20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
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English
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328
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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.
Preface
7
Acknowledgements
9
Contents
11
List of Figures
14
Notes on Sources
16
Chapter 1 Introduction
20
Chapter 2 The Father’s Scientific World
26
Chapter 3 The First World War
48
Chapter 4 The Promise of Pure Science
69
Chapter 5 Traveling with Polanyi
93
Chapter 6 Turbulence and Conformity
105
Chapter 7 Seizing the Wheel
130
Chapter 8 The Beginning of Resistance
149
Chapter 9 Heavy Water and the Atomic Bomb
163
Chapter 10 The Summer of Decision
181
Chapter 11 The Uranium Club
207
Chapter 12 Steadfast to the End
229
Chapter 13 Rebuilding the World
255
Appendixes
283
Appendix I: Chronology of Main Events
283
Appendix II Biographical Profiles
286
A
287
B
287
C
292
D
293
E
295
F
297
G
299
H
301
J
304
K
306
L
307
M
310
N
311
O
312
P
313
Q
315
R
315
S
316
T
319
U
320
V
321
W
321
Z
323
Selected Bibliography
324
Index
333
