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THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD OF KARL-FRIEDRICH BONHOEFF...

In twentieth-century Germany  Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant
physical chemist  even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became
involved in the resistance to Hitler  leading to their executions. This book traces the
entanglement of science  religion  and politics in the Third Reich and in the lives of
Karl-Friedrich  his family and his colleagues  including Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize  Karl-Friedrich was an expert on heavy water  a component of the
atomic bomb. During the war  he was caught in the middle between relatives who were trying to
kill Hitler and friends who were helping Hitler build a nuclear weapon. Karl-Friedrich emerges
as a complex figure-an agnostic whose brother was a renowned theologian  and a chemist who both
reluctantly advised German nuclear scientists and collaborated with Paul Rosbaud  a spy for the
British. Illuminating the uneasy position of science in twentieth-century Germany  The
Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer is the story of a man in love with chemistry  his
family  and his nation  trying to do right by all of them in the midst of chaos.

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