An incisive and revealing exploration of the fate of physics under the Nazis - and how scientific idealism led to accommodation with a totalitarian regime.
Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass- How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity- How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich- The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible- The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.
Ball's book shows what can happen to morality when cleverness and
discovery are valued above all else
*New Statesman*
Ball does an outstanding service by reminding us how powerful and
sometimes confusing the pressures were… Packed with dramatic,
moving and even comical moments
*Nature*
A fascinating account of the moral dilemmas faced by German
physicists working within Nazism. Impeccably researched
*Tablet*
An engrossing and disturbing book
*History Today*
[A] fine book
*Times Literary Supplement*
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