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Author/Creator:Medawar, J. S.
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Title:Hitler's gift : the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime / Jean Medawar and David Pyke; foreword by Max Perutz.
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ISBN:1611457092
9781611457094
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Published/Created:New York : Arcade Books, 2012, 2001.
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Physical Description:xx, 268 p. ; 24 cm
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Call Number: Q141 .M42 2012
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:Includes "list of illustrations" but no illustrations.
Reprint. Previously published: 2001.
Reprint . Previously published: as Hitler's gift : the true story of the scientists expelled by the Nazi regime. London : Richard Cohen Books, 2000.
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Summary:The exodus of German and Austrian scientists, mostly Jewish, caused critical damage to Germany's scientific output and caused invaluable gains to the West. The book tells individual stories of emigration, rescue, and escape ... draw[s] on interviews with more than twenty surviving refugee scholars.
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Format:Book
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-258) and index.
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Contents:German science before Hitler -- The coming of the Nazis -- Einstein -- Rescuers -- Refugees to Great Britain-physicists -- Refugees to Great Britain-biologists and chemists -- Refugees to the United States -- Those who stayed -- Internment -- The bomb.
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Subjects:Jewish refugees--Great Britain.
Jewish refugees--United States.
Jewish scientists--Germany.
Jewish scientists--Great Britain.
Jewish scientists--United States.
Science--Germany--History--20th century.
Science--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Antisemitism--Germany.
Brain drain--Germany--History--20th century.
National socialism and science.
Political persecution--Germany--History--20th century.
Science and state--Germany--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
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Genre/Form:History.
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Also listed under:Pyke, David.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12175416
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