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(1996) Physics and national socialism, Basel, Birkhäuser.

Review of Philipp Lenard's "German physics"[February 29, 1936]

Max von Laue

pp. 127-129

This work by Philipp Lenard* clearly originated from the lectures on experimental physics the author had held over a number of decades as professor in Heidelberg.[1]They were famous, and justifiably so. Whoever heard the author lecture, even if it were only once, could not avoid coming away with the impression that he is a great personality gifted with a deep understanding of diverse aspects of physics and instilled with a sincere love for nature. This book seeks to preserve as much of this as possible for posterity. Thus naturally it cannot exactly be a modern textbook of physics, which fact might become more apparent in the volumes to follow the present one under discussion.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9008-3_45

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von Laue, (1996)., Review of Philipp Lenard's "German physics"[February 29, 1936], in K. Hentschel (ed.), Physics and national socialism, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 127-129.

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