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Scientists flee Nazi Germany

13/08/2013 GMT

Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

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How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of Germany in the 1930s.

The early 20th Century was a golden age for physics with pioneers such as Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer and Werner Heisenberg working together at Gottingen University in Germany. But the rise of Hitler forced Born and many other Jewish scientists to flee into exile. Max Born's son, Gustav, tells Louise Hidalgo about his memories of the period and his father's friendship with Albert Einstein.

(Photo: A gathering of European scientists in 1927. Max Born is second from the right in the second row.)

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