Heisenberg in West Germany: Culture, Politics, and a Role for the Physicist

海森堡在西德：文化、政治和物理学家的角色

• 批准号: 9810433
• 负责人: Cathryn Carson
• 金额: $ 6.64万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-15 至 1999-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810433&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Heisenberg; West; Germany; Culture; Politics

With Werner Heisenberg as its centerpiece, this study examines the development of a public role for physicists in Germany during the years following World War II. The inquiry examines several facets of the role Heisenberg helped define for the physicist, including that of the physicist as a wise man with influence in a wide range of cultural and political issues. Based on much new archival material and close study of published documents, the project offers insights into a range of topics, from Heisenberg as an individual to the situation of physics after World War II, the intellectual context of the sciences in Germany, the popularization of scientific knowledge, and the role of the scientist in developing a West German culture and polity. The resulting book will connect the history of physics to the social, cultural, and political history of Germany after the war, examining the place of scientists in the modern order and bringing out the profound impact of science on the structures of postwar society.

以海森堡为中心，本研究考察了二战后德国物理学家公共角色的发展。 调查研究了海森堡帮助定义物理学家角色的几个方面，包括物理学家作为一个在广泛的文化和政治问题上有影响力的智者。 基于许多新的档案材料和出版文件的密切研究，该项目提供了一系列主题的见解，从海森堡个人到第二次世界大战后的物理学状况，德国科学的知识背景，科学知识的普及，以及科学家在发展西德文化和政治中的作用。 由此产生的书将物理学的历史连接到战后德国的社会，文化和政治史，研究科学家在现代秩序中的地位，并带来了科学对战后社会结构的深刻影响。