News from the Library: Gordon Fraser presents his book, "Quantum Exodus"

The book "Quantum Exodus" will be presented by the author Gordon Fraser on Thursday 14 June at 4 P.M. in the Library, Building 52-1-052.

 

"Quantum Exodus" by Gordon Fraser, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Here's what the publisher says about the book:

"It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. (...)

Atomic science had attracted a lot of Jewish talent, and as Albert Einstein and other quantum exiles scattered, they realized that they held the key to a weapon of unimaginable power. Convinced that their gentile counterparts in Germany had come to the same conclusion, and having witnessed what the Nazis were prepared to do, the exiles were afraid. They had to get to the Atomic Bomb first. The Nazis meanwhile had acquired a more pressing objective: their persecution of the Jews had evolved into extermination. Two dreadful projects - the Bomb and the Holocaust - became locked a grisly race."

 

***  Tea and coffee will be served before the presentation at 3.30 pm.  ***

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