1. ‘as conservatively as possible’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: ‘Nobel prize-winner with dirty hands’ 1
5. 1. ‘as conservatively as possible’ 7
6. 2. ‘physics must be rebuilt’ 22
7. 3. ‘the beginning of something new’ 34
8. 4. ‘intellectual freedom is a thing of the past’ 43
9. 5. ‘service to science must be service to the nation’ 65
10. 6. ‘there is very likely a nordic science’ 82
11. 7. ‘you obviously cannot swim against the tide’ 107
12. 8. ‘i have seen my death!’ 142
13. 9. ‘as a scientist or as a man’ 165
14. 10. ‘hitherto unknown destructive power’ 187
15. 11 ‘heisenberg was mostly silent’ 197
16. 12. ‘we are what we pretend to be’ 232
17. Epilogue: ‘we did not speak the same language’ 251
18. Notes 268
19. Bibliography 288
20. Image credits 295
21. Index 297