SERVING THE REICH: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF PHYSICS UNDER HITLER
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B62201
English Summary/英文概要： Serving the Reich tells the story of three world-renowned physicists working under Hitler against the background of the attempt by Nazi scientists to create ’German Physics’ - an Aryan science that excluded any ’Jewish ideas’, in particular Einstein’s Theory of Relativity:
Max Planck, who had laid the foundations of quantum theory, regarded it as his moral duty to carry on under the regime even as all Jewish scientists were dismissed from their posts.
Peter Debye rose to become the head of the Reich’s most renowned research institute before leaving for the United States in 1940.
Werner Heisenberg, the discoverer of the Uncertainty Principle, became the leading figure in Germany’s race for the atomic bomb.
Yet after the war most German scientists maintained they had been apolitical or even resisted the regime: Debye claimed that he had gone to America to warn the world about Germany’s nuclear research; Heisenberg and others argued that they had deliberately delayed production of the atomic bomb.
Mixing history, science and biography, Serving the Reich is a gripping exploration of moral choices under a totalitarian regime. By examining the dilemmas these scientists faced and the options available to them - but also their later failure to take responsibility for their behaviour - Phil Ball shows that, for all its abstraction and objectivity, the pursuit of modern science has an inescapable political dimension.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《服务帝国》讲述了三个世界著名物理学家的故事，他们在希特勒的统治下工作，纳粹科学家试图建立“德国物理学”，一个雅利安科学家排除任何“犹太思想的科学"，特别是爱因斯坦的相对论。
马克斯•普朗奠定了克量子理论基础，认为在政权下这也是他应尽的道德上的责任，即使所有的犹太科学家从岗位上被解雇。
彼得•德拜上升到成为帝国最负盛名的研究机构的负责人，在1940年才离开前往美国。
海森堡是不确定性原理的发现者，成为德国原子弹的领军人物。
然而，战后，大多数的德国科学家都不再关心政治，甚至抵制政权：德拜声称，他已经前往美国，对德国的核研究向世界发出警告；海森堡等人辩称，他们故意拖延生产原子弹时间。。。
《服务帝国》混合了历史，科学和传记，是对极权制度下的道德选择的扣人心弦的探索。尽管审查了这些科学家们面临的困境和提供给他们的选择，但他们后来也没有为自己的行为承担责任，菲尔•球表明，尽管科学有抽象性和客观性，但对科学的追求也该有着政治的标准。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Philip Ball 是一个自由撰稿人，”自然“的顾问和编辑，在那里他曾担任物理科学的编辑。他定期向”科学“和”大众媒体“投稿，他写了很多书，包括《临界质量》：一个事件如何导致另一件事（2005年安万特科学图书奖获得者）；《音乐本能，不自然》：改造人的异端思想；还有最近的《好奇心》：科学如何对一切都感兴趣。Philip Ball is a freelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature, where he previously worked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and his many books include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People and, most recently, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything.
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