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Summary of Jean Medawar & David Pyke's Hitler's Gift
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The German empire was created in 1871, and soon after Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck, the architect of Germany’s greatness. The Kaiser, who considered himself the leader of both civil and military life, had a respect for science and learning. #2 Science entered a great age in Germany, with scientists as the new heroes. The research that led to Germany’s pioneering industrial production of synthetic dyes reaping commercial returns also brought biological and medical breakthroughs. #3 In theoretical physics, Germany was the most innovative country, and its contributions included the revolutionary discoveries of the quantum theory and relativity. #4 Germany had several scientific centers of excellence outside Berlin, such as Munich. The town-and-gown atmosphere was similar to that of Cambridge, and life revolved around the university in the city center.
Pyke's Notes
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Hitler's Gift
Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. With Hitler's rise to power and the introduction of racial laws, starting with the exclusion of all Jews from state institutions, Jewish professors were forced to leave their jobs, which closed the door on Germany’s fifty-year record of world supremacy in science. Of these more than 1,500 refugees, fifteen went on to win Nobel Prizes, several co-discovered penicillin—and more of them became the driving force behind the atomic bomb project. In this revelatory book, Jean Medawar and David Pyke tell countless gripping individual stories of emigration, rescue, and escape, including those of Albert Einstein, Fritz...
Freud in Cambridge
The authors explore the influence of Freud's thinking on twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life within Cambridge and beyond.
Alice
This is the life of a pioneering woman doctor who, graduating in 1937, had by the time of her death in 1974 reached the highest honours of her profession and become a leading public figure. A specialist allergist and paediatrician, Alice Bush was at the vanguard of debates about the provision of health services, attitudes to sexuality, reproductive rights and health education. At the same time she was also a daughter, wife and mother sharing contemporary views about these roles and gradually working out, without support of a prevailing feminist ideology, ways to sustain both aspects of her life. Her story is one of courage, flexibility, imagination and compassion whihc offers much interest to people from different perspectives.
Genetic Factors in Drug Therapy
This is the first comprehensive work of reference to survey in depth the wide-ranging variability in the response of individuals to drugs.
Pride Versus Prejudice
John Cooper's pioneering full-length study is a treasure trove of new information, fresh in terms of the ground it covers and the material it assembles. Building on newspapers, archives, and interviews to illustrate the lives and professional experiences of the individuals involved, Cooper also brings out such broad underlying themes as emancipation, antisemitism, radical assimilation, and professionalization. This engaging work on Anglo-Jewry will be of value to the historian and general reader alike.
George J. Klein
This book is the official biography of George J. Klein, a design engineer who spent 40 years at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and was considered "the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th Century". The book recounts Klein's family history and personal life.
A Historical Dictionary of British Women
This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.
