Hitler's gift, the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime
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Hitler's gift, the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime
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eng
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non fiction
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Hitler's gift
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dictionaries
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the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime
Summary
The accomplishments of the Jewish scientists who were forced to flee Nazi Germany-including their research that turned the tide of World War II. Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. But with Hitler's rise to power and the introduction of racial laws, Jewish professors were forced to leave their jobs-effectively ending Germany's fifty-year record of world supremacy in science. Among these more than 1500 refugees were co-discoverers of penicillin-as well as others were instrumental in developing the atomic bomb. Based largely on interviews with more than twenty of the surviving refugee scholars, this revelatory book recounts numerous stories of emigration, rescue, and escape, including those of Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Leo Szilard, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi, and many others. Hitler's Gift is the story of scientists forced from their homeland, only to revolutionize the world we live in today
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adult
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- Jewish scientists -- Great Britain
- Science -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish refugees -- Great Britain
- Jewish refugees -- United States
- Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- National socialism and science
- Political persecution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish scientists -- United States
- Jewish scientists -- Germany
- Science and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Antisemitism -- Germany
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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- Jewish scientists -- Great Britain
- Science -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish refugees -- Great Britain
- Jewish refugees -- United States
- Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- National socialism and science
- Political persecution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish scientists -- United States
- Jewish scientists -- Germany
- Science and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Antisemitism -- Germany
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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