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  Title

  Hitler's scientists : science, war, and the devil's pact

  Author

  Cornwell, John, 1940-  

  Publisher:

  Viking,

  Pub date:

  2003.

  Pages:

  xvi, 535 p. :

  ISBN:

  0670030759

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	509.22 COR	1	Book

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  Hitler's scientists : science, war, and the devil's pact
  Cornwell, John, 1940-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Cornwell, John, 1940-

  Title:

  Hitler's scientists : science, war, and the devil's pact / John Cornwell.

  Publication info:

  New York : Viking, 2003.

  Physical description:

  xvi, 535 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

  Summary:

  In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.

  Subject term:

  Science and state--Germany--History--20th century.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1939-1945--Science--Germany.

  key:

  ocm52761187

  ISBN:

  0670030759 (alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0670893625