Einstein and Nazi physics
Sep 02, 2019
In a Germany with widespread and growing anti-Semitism, and later with the rise of Nazism, Albert Einstein’s physics faced hostility and was attacked on racial grounds.
Etiqueta: science and ideology
Destroyed research in Nazi Vienna
Sep 02, 2019
Academic life in Vienna was hit harder by National Socialism than anywhere else in Germany, due to the high numbers of scientists of Jewish origins.
Science and political ideology
Sep 02, 2019
Scientists supported Nazi ideologies and policies in many ways
Science and Nazism
Sep 02, 2019
This monograph seeks precisely to show the level of involvement of the German academic world with Nazi postulates.
‘Science and Nazism’, the new Mètode monograph
Sep 02, 2019
The third volume published by Mètode in 2019 sheds light on the involvement of science in the policies of the Third Reich.
Nature as a political question
Sep 07, 2017
The life and work of the Prussian geographer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt continues to fascinate, even today. This is partly because his figure concentrates and synthesises the movements, ideas, and even the great contradictions of the time of profound change that was nineteenth-century Europe
Unravelling science
Jul 04, 2017
Mètode Science Studies Journal publishes the 2017 annual review, under the title Unravelling science. The seventh issue of this English language publication focuses on the secrets of neuroscience, the connection between science and ideology, science from a gender perspective, and twenty-first century astrophysics and cosmology,
The conversion of the atom
Jan 23, 2017
ABSTRACT At the beginning of the atomic age, Francoist Spain launched an expensive project to develop, research and use nuclear energy. Scientists, the military and high-ranking officials in the administration mobilised to materialise a technoscientific dream with an international scope. The modernity of nuclear science