By Bruce J. Hillman
By the top of worldwide struggle I, Albert Einstein had develop into the face of the recent technological know-how of theoretical physics and had made a few robust enemies. a type of enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a occupation attempting to discredit him. Their tale of clash, pitting Germany’s most generally celebrated Jew opposed to the Nazi scientist who used to be to turn into Hitler’s leader consultant on physics, had an effect some distance exceeding what the clinical neighborhood felt on the time. certainly, their mutual antagonism affected the path of technology lengthy after 1933, while Einstein took flight to the United States and adjusted the heritage of 2 countries. The guy Who Stalked Einstein details the stressful courting among Einstein and Lenard, their rules and activities, in the course of the eventful interval among global struggle I and global warfare II.
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Lenard makes a curious assertion at the outset of his autobiography: “My times are not here. . ” In one sense, this is true. Lenard was a typical outsider throughout his life. He wrote in his Faelschungs-Buch, a handwritten account of ideas he believed had been stolen from him, T H E H E ART OF T H E M AT TER 21 I was reminded often by my sensation of not having acquired any friend by my work, which was completely unselfish and which was in fact of benefit to many, of which they all have made use with joy.
Lenard was a typical outsider throughout his life. He wrote in his Faelschungs-Buch, a handwritten account of ideas he believed had been stolen from him, T H E H E ART OF T H E M AT TER 21 I was reminded often by my sensation of not having acquired any friend by my work, which was completely unselfish and which was in fact of benefit to many, of which they all have made use with joy. S. physicist Robert] Millikan, have acted systematically as robber-knights with Jewish support. Some even have been Jews.
It initially boasted twenty-four members, mostly friends of Drexler’s from the Munich railway plant. The meetings of the DAP took place in the back rooms of small pubs until the party established offices in another of Munich’s beer halls, the Sterneckerbraue, and then the Gasthaus Cornelius. Ironically, Adolf Hitler initially joined the DAP as a government spy. The German army assigned Corporal Hitler, still on active duty following the war, to infiltrate the DAP and inform them of party activities.