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This chapter presents Aide-Mémoire, Van der Waerden’s defense of Weisenberg and other Third Reich physicists, addressed to Niels Bohr, an arbiter of scholarly ethics. We also discuss secretly recorded in 1945 conversations of the German nuclear scientists, detained in England.
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Heisenberg, letter to Van der Waerden, dated March 7, 1949.
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[Ber, p. xix].
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Second report was dated February 29, 1940.
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[Ber, p. 128].
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[Ber, pp. 373–377].
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[Ber, p. 154].
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[Jun1, pp. 93 and 97].
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[Ber, p. 157].
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[Ber, p. 369].
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[Ber, p. 94].
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[Ber, p. 101].
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[Ber, p. 102].
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[Ber, p. 121].
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[Jun2, p. 34].
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[Ber, p. 368].
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[Hei4, p. 120].
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Soifer, A. (2015). Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_34
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