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Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht … and a Variable Gravitational Constant

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November 1952. Die Welt’s headline read “EISENHOWER ELECTED PRESIDENT.” Why did they do that, those crazy Americans? This meant the Dulles brothers in power and Adenauer’s rearmament of Germany. I put politics out of my mind and pushed the doorbell of an apartment on Hamburg’s Bundesstrasse. A maid with a little white cap opened the door.

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Schucking, E.L. (1999). Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht … and a Variable Gravitational Constant. In: Harvey, A. (eds) On Einstein’s Path. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1422-9_1

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