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

以维尔纳·海森堡为中心，本研究考察了二战后德国物理学家在公共角色上的发展。调查考察了海森堡帮助定义的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的角色。基于许多新的档案材料和对已发表文件的仔细研究，该项目提供了对一系列主题的见解，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。这本书将把物理学的历史与战后德国的社会、文化和政治史联系起来，审视科学家在现代秩序中的地位，并揭示科学对战后社会结构的深刻影响。

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.