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H-Net Review Publication: Chapman on Fraser, 'The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust'
Gordon Fraser. The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2012. viii + 267 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-959215-9. Reviewed by Roger Chapman (Department of History, Palm Beach Atlantic University) Published on H-War (August, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Hitler's Brain Drain?? Gordon Fraser's _The Quantum Exodus_ is an interesting, as well as problematic, book to read. The cover is potentially offensive as it is comprised of a yellow Star of David on top of the Alamogordo mushroom cloud. The title of the work suggests the focus is on the Jewish physicists who fled the Nazi regime and later played a major role in the Manhattan Project, but the sprawling narrative is much broader, including tangents on academics of all kinds, doctors, writers, and intellectuals. The first appendix, for instance, offers a list of one hundred and eleven "emigran...
Romantic Feelings. Continuities and Discontinuities in the History of Emotions (From the Aftermath of the French Revolution to the Revolutions of 1848)", 16 – 18 September 2013, University of Geneva
Preliminary Program Monday, 16 September 14:00 - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction by Dolores Martín Moruno - IHMS, Geneva University, CH 14:30 - 16:00 Feeling with the Brain Chair: Colin Jones - Queen Mary University of London, UK Keynote lecture by Fay Bound-Alberti - Queen Mary University of London, UK Organs of Emotion / Emotional Organs Nike Fakiner - CCHS/CSIC, Spain Totalanschauung in wax: The aesthetic composition of Gustav Zeiller’s anatomical brain model Julien Zanetta - Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva University, CH La manière de sentir : Baudelaire et les émotions romantiques 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - 18:30 Thinking with the Heart Chair: Damien Nellis - Faculty of Letters, Geneva University, CH Patrizia Lombardo - Faculty of Letters, Geneva University, CH Les romantiques, eux, ils en ont du cœur! Isabelle Pittelo...