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First Edition. x, 124 pp; xv, 286 pp; xvi, 280 pp. The John Crerar Library copy, bound in buckram with original wrappers bound in. Perforation stamps to Vol. I, else a Very Good set. Johannes Stark: Nobel Prize, Physics, 1919, "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields." For Stark, see D.S.B. XII: 613-6. "In June 1934 the government appointed Stark president of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft . In his new powerful position . Stark intensified his fight against modern theoretical physics, designating its proponents, led by Laue, Arnold Sommerfeld and Werner Heisenberg, as 'white Jews in science' and 'viceroys of the Einsteinian spirit' in Germany. Stark emphasized that the Nazi seizure of power and the Nuremberg laws had brought only a partial victory in the fight against the Jews. The 'viceroys of Judaism in German intellectual life,' he insisted, must disappear. The violence of his attacks made Stark increasingly appear pathologically quarrelsome . Even more than Philipp Lenard, Stark has been condemned, even despised, by contemporaries and posterity. Nevertheless, he contributed significantly to the development of physics, especially in his earlier years; and he later exerted a strong, if disastrous, influence" (Armin Hermann in D.S.B., p. 615). Seller Inventory # 13903
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