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For the first three decades of the twentieth century, Germany held the premier position for science throughout the world. German scientists were the most accomplished and honored in their fields, winning the lion's share of Nobel prizes.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- John Cornwell
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Viking Adult, Listen & Live Audio, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780736696333
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“I have an early impression of my father holding me up to glimpse a black growling angel trailing fire in the moonlit sky across London: it was a VI - a long-range pilotless 'pulse-jet' flying bomb, what today we would call a cruise missile.”
John Cornwell is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester) in 2011. He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy. - Wikipedia
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