by Philip Ball
Hoffmann, Dieter 183, 220, 221, 237
Hoffmann, Roald 238, 241
Hopf, Ludwig 123
Hückel, Erich 37, 235
Hustinx, Edmund (and Foundation) 2, 3
Irving, David 191
isotopes 150, 151
Jander, August Gerhart 67
Jaspers, Karl 256–8
Joliot, Frédéric 154, 161, 190, 260
Joliot-Curie, Irène 154
Jones, Lauder 110, 111
Joos, Georg 187
Jordan, Pascual 25, 26, 41, 222, 223, 265
Jungk, Robert 46, 203, 208, 209
Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft 16–18, 21, 57, 96, 97, 107, 219, 263
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology 45, 110, 119, 120
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry 17, 133, 134, 155, 190, 192
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry 17, 65, 66
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics 56, 57, 107–20, 142, 164–7, 179–83, 192, 219
Kallmann, Hartmut Paul 224, 225
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike 117
Kant, Immanuel 51
Karlsch, Rainer 215
Kershaw, Ian 43, 53, 60
Koppel, Leopold 17
Korsching, Horst 197
Kramish, Arnold 58, 138, 140, 206
Krebs, Hans 56
Kühn, Alfred 120
Kurlander, Eric 46, 48, 49, 51, 52
Ladenburg, Rudolf 172
Laue, Max von 36, 68, 73–5, 78, 79, 90, 109, 118, 127, 128, 171, 197, 200, 201, 220, 222, 223, 228–30
—resistance to Nazis 56, 79, 94, 95, 135
—scientific work 37
Lawrence, Ernest 153
Lenard, Philipp 11, 13, 16, 79, 83–9, 91–6, 108, 143, 222
Lorentz, Hendrik 7
Lysenko, Trofim 264
Maastricht, University of 2, 3, 236, 249
Macrakis, Kristie 258
Manhattan Project 112, 155, 210, 215, 259
Mann, Thomas 64, 226
Markl, Hubert 225
Marsden, Ernest 149, 152
Mason, Max 112
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 219, 220, 225, 263
Mehrtens, Herbert 264
Meitner, Lise 43, 44, 55, 56, 67, 68, 97, 127, 132, 133–7, 139, 155–61, 173, 207, 224, 227, 230, 231, 234, 249
Mentzel, Rudolf 67, 99, 165, 166, 180, 223
Mey, Karl 122, 125
Millikan, Robert 13, 14
Mirskaya, Elena 263
Mises, Richard von 32
Morrison, Philip 228–30
Müller, Wilhelm 91, 103
Nazi Party 20, 21, 41, 43–50
Nernst, Walter 7, 11, 109, 110
neutron, discovery of 153–5
Noddack, Ida 162
NSDAP, see Nazi Party
nuclear physics 142–164
nuclear energy 148, 151, 152, 156, 157, 163, 187–94
nuclear weapons 142, 157, 187–94, 199–205, 208–19, 259–61
Nuremberg Laws 54, 98
Nuremberg trials 222, 223, 254
Oppenheimer, Robert 210, 256–8
Orthmann, Wilhelm 126, 169
Ossietzky, Carl von 100, 121
Ostwald, Wilhelm 11, 15
Paschen, Friedrich 79
Pauli, Wolfgang 23, 25, 36, 41, 136, 155, 172
Pauling, Linus 36, 253, 260
Peierls, Rudolf 55, 56, 102, 249
Philipp, Kurt 155, 156
Physicists, The (Dürrenmatt, 1962) 245
Planck, Erwin 192
Planck, Max 4–6, 10–15, 18–21, 23, 57, 58, 67–9, 88, 107, 109, 110, 112, 115, 116, 121, 123, 142, 157, 158, 185, 220, 241, 243
—and quantum theory 13, 14
—and the Prussian Academy of Sciences 73–81
—and the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft 57, 60, 63, 69, 80, 81
—early life 10
—meeting with Hitler 60–4
plutonium 189, 215
Powers, Thomas 203–5
Prandtl, Ludwig 102, 105, 106
Prout, William 150
Prussian Academy of Sciences 18, 19, 73–7, 79
Pugwash meetings 260
quantum theory 12–14, 22–33
Quidde, Ludwig 46, 47
Rabkin, Yakov 263
radioactivity 143–9, 152–4
Ramm, Wolfgang 118
Ramsauer, Carl 169–71, 221
Reiding, Jurrie 140
relativity (special and general) 14, 15
Renneberg, Monika 105
Rhodes, Richard 157
Rispens, Sybe 2, 126, 179, 236, 237
Rittner, T. H. 199, 222
Rockefeller Foundation 20, 44, 53, 110–12, 114–16, 167, 179
Rogowski, Friedrich 118
Rohrbach, Paul 52
Röntgen, Wilhelm 11, 15, 36, 84, 143
Rosbaud, Paul 59, 60, 64, 135–6, 138–41, 162, 163, 195, 201, 202, 223, 225
Rose, Paul Lawrence 58, 100, 103, 204, 205, 214, 215, 217, 226
Rosenberg, Alfred 98
Rotblat, Joseph 253, 260, 261
Roth, Joseph 51
Rust, Bernhard 66, 68, 70, 75, 79, 96, 97, 104, 117, 121, 127, 170, 179, 191, 223
Rutherford, Ernest 23, 90, 138, 146–50, 152, 153, 156–8
Sack, Heinrich 132, 173
Saxinger, Gerhard 181, 183
Schacht, Hjalmar 52, 53
Scherrer, Paul 37, 109, 133–4, 207
Schottky, Walter 128
Schrödinger, Erwin 15, 23, 26, 27, 31, 41, 56, 123
Schüler, Hermann 118
Schumann, Erich 188, 192
Schütz, Wilhelm 129, 169
science and ethics 243, 246–9, 254, 255
science and politics 4, 30–3, 243–6, 251–67
Simon, Franz 117, 130
Soddy, Frederick 146–8, 151
Solvay conferences 7, 8, 155, 158, 159
Sommerfeld, Arnold 23–5, 36, 37, 38, 41, 89, 98, 99, 102, 114, 123, 181, 223, 238, 254
Speer, Albert 170, 191, 214, 216
Spengler, Oswald 31–3
Stalin, Josef 264, 265
Stark, Johannes 24, 32, 72, 79, 83, 88–106, 108, 112, 113, 222, 223, 254
Steiner, Rudolf 86
Stern, Otto 55
Strassmann, Fritz 68, 159, 160
Stuart, Herbert 126, 169, 223
Szilard, Leo 59, 156, 157, 163, 177
Teller, Edward 70, 163
Telschow, Ernst 97, 133, 165, 166, 168, 179, 180
Thiessen, Peter Adolf 67
Thomson, J. J. 23, 84, 143, 149
Thüring, Bruno 92, 93
Tisdale, Wilbur Earle 44, 111–13, 115–17, 166
Treitschke, Heinrich von 51
uranium 144, 147, 160–4, 189
Utrecht, University of 3, 236, 249
V-2 rocket programme 138, 191, 216, 218
Vahlen, Theodor 79, 80
van der Grinten, Willem 118, 173
van Ginkel, Gijs 236
Veltman, Martinus 236
Verschuer, Otmar von 225
Vonnegut, Kurt 232, 233
Walker, Mark 3, 4, 78, 101, 105, 127, 132, 203, 205, 215, 217, 218, 237, 242, 254, 258, 263
Walton, Ernest 156
Warburg, Lotte 63
Warburg, Otto 45, 56, 110, 111, 119, 120, 127
Wassermann, Jakob 64
Watson, James 253
Weaver, Warren 53–5, 66, 67, 71, 107, 108, 111, 114, 117, 119, 120, 175, 176, 179, 212, 245
Weber, Alfred 48
Weimar Republic 15, 19–21, 45
Weizsäcker, Carl von 46, 118, 119, 189, 193, 197, 199–203, 205–7, 217, 219, 226, 232, 248, 249
Weizsäcker, Ernst von 233
Weizsäcker, Richard von 219, 241
Welsh, Eric 140
Weyl, Hermann 32, 70
Weyland, Paul 87, 88
Wien, Max 99
Wien, Wilhelm 11, 12, 31, 89
Wigner, Eugene 55
Wirtz,
Karl 118, 197
Wise, M. Norton 265
X-rays 15, 84, 143, 144
Zeeman, Pieter 24, 245
Zenneck, Jonathan 123, 169