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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man (2000)

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man (2000)

J. L. Heilbron

Year: 2000
Authors: J. L. Heilbron
Publishers: Harvard University Press
Pages: 285
Print type: BOOK

Description:

In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. He shows how Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.