In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and his Career in Nazi Germany (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and his Career in Nazi Germany (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War)

This volume describes and analyses the highly successful careerof the Dutch physicist and Nobel prize winner P.J.W. Debye (1884-1966) in the Third Reich. The book sketches the life of a man wholived for science, but at the same time maintained close contactswith influential officials, industrialists and sometimes even politicians.In this context Debye declined to respond in public to thetreatment of Jews in society in general and in science in particular,even after his migration to the United States in 1940. By combininga biographical perspective with network analysis and researchon contemporary moral assessments, this book sheds new anddisturbing light on Debyes socio-political worldview and hisinvolvement in the Aryanization of German science.

Dr Martijn Eickhoff (1967) is a historian who has published widely on the role and position of academics in the Third Reich. He is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam and a lecturer in cultural history at the Radboud University of Nijmegen.