"In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" von Silvan S. Schweber ist eine tiefgründige Untersuchung der Rolle und Verantwortung von Wissenschaftlern in Zeiten des Krieges und der...

In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had failed. In the post-World War II period,...