Laboratory Life Instead of Nuclear Weapons: A New Perspective on the German Uranium Club

IF 0.1 3区哲学 Q4 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Physics in Perspective Pub Date : 2023-01-11 DOI:10.1007/s00016-022-00294-8

Christian Forstner

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Abstract

Why did German physicists not build an atomic bomb during the Second World War? This question has long been controversial. This essay provides a new perspective through a focus on the everyday practice of the physicists in their laboratories. The study of everyday research work has long been obscured by the question of the bomb. To this end, the research of the Viennese group in the German Uranverein, or “Uranium Club,” will be analyzed in detail. What breaks and continuities were there in everyday laboratory practice? Were the physicists able to acquire new resources? Did they at least come close to the scale of Big Science or did their research remain tied to the academic laboratory?

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实验室生活代替核武器:德国铀俱乐部的新视角

为什么德国物理学家在第二次世界大战期间没有制造出原子弹?这个问题一直存在争议。这篇文章通过关注物理学家在实验室的日常实践提供了一个新的视角。长期以来，对日常研究工作的研究一直被原子弹问题所掩盖。为此，将详细分析德国“铀联盟”或“铀俱乐部”中维也纳集团的研究情况。在日常的实验室实践中有哪些中断和连续性?物理学家们能够获得新的资源吗?他们至少接近大科学的规模，还是他们的研究仍然局限于学术实验室?

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Physics in Perspective 物理-科学史与科学哲学

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0.60

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Physics in Perspective seeks to bridge the gulf between physicists and non-physicists through historical and philosophical studies that typically display the unpredictable as well as the cross-disciplinary interplay of observation, experiment, and theory that has occurred over extended periods of time in academic, governmental, and industrial settings and in allied disciplines such as astrophysics, chemical physics, and geophysics. The journal also publishes first-person accounts by physicists of significant contributions they have made, biographical articles, book reviews, and guided tours of historical sites in cities throughout the world. It strives to make all articles understandable to a broad spectrum of readers – scientists, teachers, students, and the public at large. Bibliographic Data Phys. Perspect. 1 volume per year, 4 issues per volume approx. 500 pages per volume Format: 15.5 x 23.5cm ISSN 1422-6944 (print) ISSN 1422-6960 (electronic)