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The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer

The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany

Kathleen L. Housley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 328 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-95800-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Kathleen L. Housley is the author of ten books. Her essays on what she calls the force fields between science, religion, and the arts have appeared in many publications, including Image, The Christian Century, and Metanexus.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Zusatzinfo	XX, 328 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Dietrich Bonhoeffer • ethics and science • Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer • Manhattan Project • Max Planck • Michael Polanyi • Nazi Atomic bomb research • Nazi Germany • nazi resistance • Nazism • Paul Rosbaud • Pure science • quantum mechanics • Science and religion • shell shock • The Bonhoeffer family • the Uranium Club • Werner Heisenberg • World War II
ISBN-10	3-319-95800-3 / 3319958003
ISBN-13	978-3-319-95800-2 / 9783319958002
Zustand	Neuware