Because the Nazis considered theoretical physics and quantum mechanics too abstruse and "Jewish," they had replaced them years before with a more homegrown and homespun curriculum-the rudimentary Deutsche Physik-and as a result of the switch, half of the country's nuclear scientists had been relieved of, or driven from, their posts. A plethora of the continent's brightest lights had also taken flight. Not just Einstein, but Hans Bethe, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Otto Stern, Lise Meitner, Robert Frisch, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Maria Goeppert-Mayer-the list went on and on.
( Robert Masello )
[ The Einstein Prophecy ]
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