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History 181B: Modern Physics

Class 34 (4/16/03)
Physics under National Socialism

 
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Outline First consequences for physics: Dismissals and emigration
    Domestic effects
    International effects

Cooperation with the regime

"Aryan" physics
    The program, the proponents, and their motivations
    "Aryan" physics and Nazi physics
    Defensive strategies: The Sommerfeld succession

Pragmatism, utility, and new political questions
Names and terms
Primary Secondary
Law for Restoration of the Civil Service (1933)
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
"Aryan" physics (Deutsche Physik)
Philipp Lenard (1862-1947), NP 1905
Johannes Stark (1874-1957), NP 1919		 "Electrodynamics of Moving Media" (1940)
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