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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Einstein Dossiers
    sub title: Science and Politics — Einstein’s Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein’s FBI File
  name:
    name part: Grundmann, Siegfried.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 459 p. online resource.
  abstract: In 1919 the Prussian Ministry of Science, Arts and Culture opened a dossier on "Einstein's Theory of Relativity." It was rediscovered by the author in 1961 and is used in conjunction with numerous other subsequently identified 'Einstein' files as the basis of this fascinating book. In particular, the author carefully scrutinizes Einstein's FBI file from 1950-55 against mostly unpublished material from European including Soviet sources and presents hitherto unknown documentation on Einstein's alleged contacts with the German Communist Party and the Comintern. Siegfried Grundmann's thorough study of Einstein's participation on a committee of the League of Nations, based on archival research in Geneva, is also new. This book outlines Einstein's image in politics and German science policy. It covers the period from his appointment as a researcher in Berlin to his fight abroad against the "boycott of German science" after World War I and his struggle at home against attacks on "Jewish physics" of which he was made a prime target. An important gap in the literature on Einstein is thus filled, contributing much new material toward a better understanding of Einstein's so rigorous break with Germany.
  table of contents: Foreword -- The Kaiserreich: Military power and science - 'Sturdy pillars of Germany's greatness' -- Einstein's path to Berlin -- World War I -- Upshot -- Einstein in private – not quite in private -- The Weimar Republic: Boycott of German science -- World renown -- Sponsorship – the Einstein Tower -- A target for right-wing propaganda and violence -- Emissary and emigré – Einstein's foreign travels -- Erstwhile Swiss, henceforth Prussian. Einstein's national citizenship -- Einstein's membership in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation -- Parting ways. Einstein and the end of the Weimar Republic -- The Third Reich: Shouts of triumph by a band of murderers -- Resignation from the Academy of Sciences -- Confiscations (bank account, summer villa and sailboat) -- Conclusion -- Einstein's FBI file – reports on Albert Einstein's Berlin period -- Fact, fiction and lies -- The informant -- Conclusion.
  note: by Siegfried Grundmann.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540311041
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31104-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204175500.0
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