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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
    sub title: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany
  name:
    name part: Housley, Kathleen L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 328 p. 18 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Kathleen L. Housley.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Europe, Central-History
  subject:
    topic: History of World War II and the Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Germany and Central Europe
  classification: D731-838
  classification: 940.53
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
  identifier: 9783319958019
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95801-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 180905
    record change date: 20191028122340.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-95801-9