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    Interpretationen und Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemein Relativitätstheorie durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins.Klaus Hentschel - 1990 - Birkhäuser Basel.
    Die Relativitatstheorien (RT) Einsteins gehoren zu den meistdiskutierten Theorien der Physik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Nach der Formulie­ rung der sog. 'speziellen Relativitatstheorie' (SRT) im Jahr 1905 nah­ men zunachst nur einige Spezialisten von ihr Kenntnis, bis mit ungefiihr fiinf Jahren Verspatung dann auch zunehmend Nicht-Physiker sich mit ihr zu beschaftigen begannen, angeregt durch populiirwissenschaftliche, all­ gemeinverstiindliche 'Einfiihrungen' von Kollegen Einsteins wie z. B. Paul Langevin in Frankreich oder Max von Laue in Deutschland. Diese Pha­ senverschiebung zwischen fachwissenschaftlichem Ausbau der Theorie (...)
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    Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta.Klaus Hentschel - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of ‘light quanta’ or ‘photons’, as they have usually been called in English since 1926. The great number of synonyms that have been used by physicists to denote this concept indicates that there are many different mental models of what ‘light quanta’ are: simply finite, ‘quantized packages of energy’ or ‘bullets of light’? ‘Atoms of light’ or ‘molecules of light’? ‘Light corpuscles’ or ‘quantized waves’? Singularities of the field or spatially (...)
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    Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.Daniel Greenberger, Klaus Hentschel & Friedel Weinert (eds.) - 2009 - Springer.
    Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy Daniel Greenberger, Klaus Hentschel, Friedel Weinert. 5. W. Hittorf, Ueber die Elektricit ̈atsleitung der Gase , Annalen der Physik 136, 1–31, 197–234 (1869); Engl. transl. On the Conduction of ...
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    Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing relativity theory 1907–1927.Klaus Hentschel - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (4):593-624.
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    On Feyerabend's Version of 'Mach's Theory of Research and its Relation to Einstein'.Klaus Hentschel - 1985 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 16 (4):387.
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    Die Korrespondenz Einstein-Schlick: Zum Verhältnis der Physik zur Philosophie.Klaus Hentschel - 1986 - Annals of Science 43 (5):475-488.
    Es wird die wechselseitige Beeinflussung Einsteins und Schlicks anhand ihrer ab 1915 erhaltenen Korrespondenz in vier Schwerpunkten untersucht. Schlicks Selbstverständnis als Philosoph wie auch einzelne Themata seines Denkens bildeten sich mit seiner Auseinandersetzung um die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins heraus, deren systematische Explikation durch Schlick auf Einsteins Beifall stieß. Als die Ursache für das Auseinanderdriften beider Denker nach 1925 werden fundamentale Differenzen im Wirklichkeitsverständnis und in der Interpretation des Kausalitätsprinzips aufgewiesen, die beide auch zu komplementären Formen der Wissenschaftsgeschichtsbetrachtung führten.Some topics in the (...)
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  7. The Interplay of Instrumentation, Experiment, and Theory: Patterns Emerging from Case Studies on Solar Redshift, 1890–1960.Klaus Hentschel - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (4):64.
    This paper discusses a series of case studies on observations, experiments, and the theoretical interpretation between 1890 and 1960 of a shift of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum. I argue for the use of flow charts to analyze interconnections and to identify sequences of research strategies. Also I advocate using a newly-developed tool called "block diagram" representation of experimental systems as an appropriate method to identify recurrent patterns in the interplay of instrumentation, experiment, and theory in research episodes.
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    Grebe/Bachems photometrische Analyse der Linienprofile und die Gravitations-Rotverschiebung: 1919 bis 1922.Klaus Hentschel - 1992 - Annals of Science 49 (1):21-46.
    An effort of proponents of relativity theory to find evidence for the so-called gravitational red-shift of spectral lines as one of the experimental consequences of Einstein's generalized theory of relativity is reconsidered with reference to hitherto unpublished documents. It is shown how much interest Albert Einstein in fact took, around 1920, in the data analysis of Leonhard Grebe and Albert Bachem, who tried to explain why most earlier efforts to find the gravitational red-shift had failed. They carefully measured the line (...)
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    Der neue Weg“: Mit „interatomarer Energie“ zum „Herrn der Welt“ werden“Inneratomic Energy” as the “New Path” Towards Becoming “Master of the World.Klaus Hentschel - 2020 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (2):121-147.
    ZusammenfassungBei der Durchsicht des Nachlasses von Rudolf Tomaschek fand ich ein 30 Seiten umfassendes Typoskript seines damaligen Assistenten Hugo Watzlawek aus dem Jahr 1944 mit dem Titel „Interatomare Energie“. Heute würde man eher von „inneratomarer Energie“, oder von „Kernenergie“ sprechen, da der Inhalt des Typoskripts „technische Kernphysik“ einschließlich ihrer potentiellen militärischen Anwendungen betrifft. Der Text bietet einen ungefilterten, erstaunlich kenntnisreichen, aber in vielem auch erschreckenden Einblick in die technokratische Gedankenwelt sowie den Wissensstand und Anwendungshorizont eines „technischen Kernphysikers“ im „Dritten Reich“, (...)
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    „Der neue Weg“: Mit „interatomarer Energie“ zum „Herrn der Welt“ werden: Zu einem bislang unbekannten Typoskript vom Oktober 1944.Klaus Hentschel - 2020 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (2):121-147.
    ZusammenfassungBei der Durchsicht des Nachlasses von Rudolf Tomaschek fand ich ein 30 Seiten umfassendes Typoskript seines damaligen Assistenten Hugo Watzlawek aus dem Jahr 1944 mit dem Titel „Interatomare Energie“. Heute würde man eher von „inneratomarer Energie“, oder von „Kernenergie“ sprechen, da der Inhalt des Typoskripts „technische Kernphysik“ einschließlich ihrer potentiellen militärischen Anwendungen betrifft. Der Text bietet einen ungefilterten, erstaunlich kenntnisreichen, aber in vielem auch erschreckenden Einblick in die technokratische Gedankenwelt sowie den Wissensstand und Anwendungshorizont eines „technischen Kernphysikers“ im „Dritten Reich“, (...)
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    Erwin Finlay Freundlich and Testing Einstein's Theory of Relativity.Klaus Hentschel - 1994 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 47 (2):143-201.
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    Von der Werkstoffforschung zur Materials Science.Klaus Hentschel - 2011 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (1):5-40.
    The manipulation of materials, and to some extent also their systematic classification, form an integral part of the skills and culture of all societies. Yet it took long for proper sciences to develop out of many processing procedures, tapping the accumulated knowledge about specific material characteristics. In the late 20th century an overarching science of workable materials emerged: materials science. This concept and term originated from major boosts in materials research during WWII and the Cold War, first financed by the (...)
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    Die Korrespondenz Duhem-Mach: Zur ‘Modellbeladenheit’ von Wissenschaftsgeschichte.Klaus Hentschel - 1988 - Annals of Science 45 (1):73-91.
    Die Korrespondenz der beiden Physiker und Wissenschaftshistoriker Ernst Mach und Pierre Duhem ist weitgehend, vielleicht mit Ausnahme nur eines Briefes, erhalten. Neben der Dokumentation dieser historischen Zeugnisse setzt sich der Autor in diesem Aufsatz zum Ziel, die jeweiligen Motive, die Mach resp. Duhem zur Beschäftigung mit Wissenschaftsgeschichte führten und die damit verbundenen Modelle der Wissenschaftsgeschichtsentwicklung beider gegeneinander abzugrenzen. Dazu wurden insb. die in der bisher vorliegenden Sekundärliteratur zu Mach und Duhem überhaupt nicht berücksichtigte Buchbesprechung der Machschen Mechanik durch Duhem sowie (...)
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    A periodization of research technologies and of the emergency of genericity.Klaus Hentschel - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 52 (Part B):223-233.
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    The Conversion of St. John: A Case Study on the Interplay of Theory and Experiment.Klaus Hentschel - 1993 - Science in Context 6 (1):137-194.
    The ArgumentGravitational redshift of spectral lines as one of the three early-known experimental implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity and gravitation was intensively searched for by researchers all over the world, but around 1920 most of the contemporary evidence in the sun's Fraunhofer-spectrum conflicted with the predictions of relativity theory.In 1923 the American astrophysicist Charles Edward St. John announced that his own solar spectroscopic data would force him to retreat from his former skepticism concerning the existence of gravitational redshift. (...)
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    Einstein, Neokantianismus und Theorienholismus.Klaus Hentschel - 1987 - Kant Studien 78 (1-4):459-470.
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    Translating in the History of Science: A Concerted Effort.Ann M. Hentschel & Klaus Hentschel - 2018 - Isis 109 (4):760-766.
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    Entkernung – Erwartungen und Befürchtungen zur Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte.Klaus Hentschel - 2018 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (4):367-370.
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    Der Vergleich als Brücke zwischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie.Klaus Hentschel - 2003 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 34 (2):251-275.
    Comparisons as a Bridge between History and Philosophy of Science. Both in history and philosophy of science, comparisons are looked upon with considerable skepticism. A widespread syndrome of casuitis, i.e., the tendency of historians of science to produce extremely narrow and local studies that do not present a case for any broader thesis of interest to philosophers, has widened the gulf between history and philosophy of science.This may be somewhat surprising to sociologists, philosophers, or general,legal and cultural historians, who have (...)
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  20. Ernst Mach Als Aussenseiter Machs Briefwechsel Über Philosophie Und Relativitätstheorie Mit Persönlichkeiten Seiner Zeit.Ernst Mach, John T. Blackmore & Klaus Hentschel - 1985
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    Why not one more imponderable? John William Draper's tithonic rays.Klaus Hentschel - 2002 - Foundations of Chemistry 4 (1):5-59.
    This paper reconstructs what may have led the American professorof chemistry andnatural philosophy John William Draper to introduce a new kind ofradiation, whichhe dubbed `Tithonic rays''. After presenting his and earlierempirical findings onthe chemical action of light in Section 3, I analyze his pertinentpapers in Section 4with the aim of identifying the various types of argumentshe raised infavor of this new actinic entity (or more precisely, this newnatural kind of raybesides optical, thermal and perhaps also phosphorogenic rays).From a modernperspective, all (...)
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    Philosophical Interpretations of Relativity Theory: 1910-1930.Klaus Hentschel - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:169 - 179.
    The paper (given in the section on "Recent work in the History of Philosophy of Science) discusses the method and some of the results of the doctoral dissertation on philosophical interpretations of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, submitted to the Dept. for History of Science, Univ. of Hamburg, in 1989, also published by Birkhauser, Basel, in 1990. It is claimed that many of the gross oversimplifications, misunderstandings and misinterpretations occurring in more than 2500 texts about the theories of (...)
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    DSI: The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950.Klaus Hentschel - 2012 - Spontaneous Generations 6 (1):182-191.
    The main features of a new online database of scientific illustrators are portrayed. We list illustrators of scientific publications of all genres (especially atlases, articles, textbooks) who were active between 1450 and 1950, thus excluding illuminators of medieval manuscripts as well as illustrators still active. Currently (Sept. 26, 2012), we already have more than 3,461 entries, with particular emphasis on anatomy, dermatology, botany, zoology, mineralogy, astronomy, and general natural history. Access to the database with its 20 search fields is free (...)
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    Mike Ware. Cyanotype: The History, Science, and Art of Photographic Printing in Prussian Blue. 178 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Bradford, U.K.: National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, 1999. £18.95. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2003 - Isis 94 (3):533-534.
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  25. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Physik - Philosophie - Friedensforschung: Leopoldina Symposium Vom 20. Bis 22. Juni 2012 in Halle. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel & Dieter Hoffmann (eds.) - 2014 - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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    Die Korrespondenz Petzoldt--Reichenbach: zur Entwicklung der "wissenschaftlichen Philosophie" in Berlin.Klaus Hentschel - 1990
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  27. Einstein und seine Exegeten: Inanspruchnahme und Deformation der Relativitätstheorie durch ihre frühen Verteidiger.Klaus Hentschel - 2007 - In Philipp W. Balsiger & Rudolf Kötter (eds.), Die Kultur Moderner Wissenschaft Am Beispiel Albert Einstein. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. pp. 69.
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  28. Letters to the Editor.Klaus Hentschel - 1990 - Isis 81 (2):279-280.
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  29. Letter To The Editor.Klaus Hentschel - 2003 - Isis 94:677-678.
  30. To the Editor.Klaus Hentschel - 2003 - Isis 94 (4):677-678.
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  31. Zur Geschichte der Materialforschung.Klaus Hentschel & Carsten Reinhardt - 2011 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (1):1-3.
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    Allan Franklin, Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press , 288pp., $38.50. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (4):607-610.
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    Olaf Breidbach;, Kerrin Klinger;, Matthias Müller. Camera Obscura: Die Dunkelkammer in ihrer historischen Entwicklung. 227 pp., illus., bibl., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. €34. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2014 - Isis 105 (3):622-622.
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    David Gugerli;, Patrick Kupper;, Daniel Speich. Die Zukunftsmaschine: Konjunkturen der ETH Zürich 1855–2005. 524 pp., app., bibl., index. Zurich: Chronos, 2005. €44.80. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2007 - Isis 98 (1):211-212.
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    Weighing light and pondering historiographies: No shadow of a doubt. The 1919 eclipse that confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, by Daniel Kennefick, Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, 403 pp., $ 29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-18386-2Einstein’s war. How relativity conquered nationalism and shook the world, by Matthew Stanley, New York, Dutton, 2019, 400 pp., $ 28 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-525-95415-7.Proving Einstein right: the daring expeditions that changed how we look at the Universe, by S. James Gates Jr. & Cathie Pelletier, New York, Public Affairs, 2019, 345 pp., $ 30 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-549-10133-5.Klaus Hentschel - 2020 - Annals of Science 77 (3):383-387.
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    The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950: Making the Invisible Hands Visible.Klaus Hentschel - 2012 - Spontaneous Generations 6 (1):182-191.
    The main features of a new online database of scientific illustrators are portrayed. We list illustrators of scientific publications of all genres (especially atlases, articles, textbooks) who were active between 1450 and 1950, thus excluding illuminators of medieval manuscripts as well as illustrators still active. Currently (Sept. 26, 2012), we already have more than 3,461 entries, with particular emphasis on anatomy, dermatology, botany, zoology, mineralogy, astronomy, and general natural history. Access to the database with its 20 search fields is free (...)
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    Objectivity - by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison.Klaus Hentschel - 2008 - Centaurus 50 (4):329-330.
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    Joseph D. Martin, Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 280. ISBN 978-0-8229-4538-3. $49.95. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2019 - British Journal for the History of Science 52 (2):379-381.
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    Martijn Eickhoff. In the Name of Science? P. J. W. Debye and his Career in Nazi Germany. Translated by Peter Mason. 184 pp., illus., bibl., index, glossary. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008. €24.90. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2010 - Isis 101 (2):439-440.
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    Milena Wazeck. Einstein’s Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s. Translated by Geoffrey S. Koby. xxi + 355 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. $99. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2016 - Isis 107 (1):193-195.
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    Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler - by Philip Ball.Klaus Hentschel - 2015 - Centaurus 57 (4):276-277.
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    Bildpraxis in historischer Perspektive: Neue Bücher zur wissenschaftlichen Bilderzeugung, -bearbeitung und -verwendung.Klaus Hentschel - 2011 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (4):413-424.
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    Helen Ross and Cornelis plug, the mystery of the moon illusion: Exploring size perception. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2002. Pp. IX+277. Isbn 0-19-850862-X. 29.95. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2004 - British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2):233-233.
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    MATTHEW R. EDWARDS , Pushing Gravity: New Perspectives on Le Sage's Theory of Gravitation. Montreal: Apeiron, 2002. Pp. iv+316. ISBN 0-9683689-7-2. $25.00. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2004 - British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2):234-235.
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    Paul Maddrell. Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany, 1945–1961. xi + 310 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £64. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2009 - Isis 100 (2):439-440.
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    A breakdown of intersubjective measurement: The case of solar-rotation measurements in the early 20th century.Klaus Hentschel - 1998 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29 (4):473-507.
  47. Zur Rolle Hans Reichenbachs in den Debatten um die.Klaus Hentschel - 1994 - In Stephen Everson (ed.), Language. Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Spectroscopic Portraiture.Klaus Hentschel - 2002 - Annals of Science 59 (1):57-82.
    This paper describes a now widely forgotten tradition in the nineteenth century which - to borrow a simile used or implied by the actors themselves - may be described as 'spectroscopic portraiture'. Quite unlike the later obsession with numerical precision in wavelength measurement, and also in stark contrast to the contemporary vogue of photographic mapping which presumptuously claimed 'mechanical objectivity', that is avoidance of any human intervention in the recorded data, there was among some spectroscopists a much greater preoccupation with (...)
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    Elisabeth Vaupel and Stefan L. Wolff , Das Deutsche Museum in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. Pp. 710. ISBN 978-3-8353-0596-0. €39.90. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2011 - British Journal for the History of Science 44 (2):306-307.
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    In the Name of Science? P. J. W. Debye and his Career in Nazi Germany. [REVIEW]Klaus Hentschel - 2010 - Isis 101:439-440.
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