In article . net, "Agki Strodon" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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BTW, a fascinating history of the German effort to develop an atomic bomb is
given in the book "Heisenberg's War". Although Werner Heisenberg was a
deeply patriotic German, he was *not* a Nazi, and was uncomfortable with the idea
of putting such a weapon in Hitler's hands. There's considerable evidence that he
deliberately sandbagged the German atomic weapons program.

Did the book say he was an anti-Semite? I've heard conflicting stories on
that and never got it clear. Apparently there were some references to him
by physicists that I heard back in my undergrad days in which he is
purported to have referred to nuclear reactions in bomb making as "Jewish
physics."

Quite the opposite, in fact. The book notes that Heisenberg's career suffered,
early on [1], because he refused to disavow the [scientifically correct]
"Jewish physics" taught by Einstein and Bohr, among others. That slur came
from Hitler, not from Heisenberg; as I said, Heisenberg was a patriotic
German, but not a Nazi. The book quotes him as expressing in a letter his
regret that "science can be poisoned by political passions."

[1] This was salvaged through the oldest of methods: family connections.
Heisenberg's maternal grandfather and Heinrich Himmler's father had been high
school classmates and close friends.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

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