The Einstein Dossiers Science and Politics — Einstein’s Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein’s FBI File /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grundmann, Siegfried (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Θέματα: Physics.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Popular works.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Physics, general.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; Popular Science, general.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

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 fascinatin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.