Mark Walker (science historian)

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Mark Walker (* 1959 ) is an American historian of science.

Walker studied mathematics and history and is a professor at Union College at Schenectady in New York . He became known through his book "Das Uranprojekt" (so the German translation) about the history of the German nuclear weapons and nuclear energy program in World War II, which is considered a standard work. The book arose from his dissertation at Princeton University in 1987 (Uran machines, nuclear explosives and national socialism: the german quest for nuclear power 1939-1949). Walker was an employee of a commission of the Max Planck Society that (from around 2000 to 2005) researched the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism.

Fonts

  • The uranium machine - the myth and reality of the German atomic bomb. Siedler, Berlin 1990; Goldmann 1994, ISBN 3442128358 (German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939-1949, Cambridge University Press 1989).
  • Editor with Dieter Hoffmann : Physicists between authority and adaptation - the German Physical Society in the Third Reich. Wiley-VCH, 2007 (therein Walker: The DPG in the National Socialist Context).
  • Nazi Science - myth, truth and the German atomic bomb. Plenum Press, 1995; Perseus, 2001.
  • Editor with Monika Renneberg: Science, technology and national socialism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Editor: Science and Ideology - a comparative study. Routledge, London 2003.
  • Otto Hahn - responsibility and repression. Max Planck Society, Berlin 2003, full text online (PDF; 442 kB)
  • An armory? Nuclear weapons and reactor research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin. In: Helmut Maier (Hrsg.): Community research, authorized representatives and the transfer of knowledge - the role of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the system of war-related research under National Socialism. Wallstein, 2007 (analysis of the archives of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics seized by the Soviets), full text online, other edition (PDF; 412 kB).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The book was written before the Farm Hall Protocols were fully published , which Walker takes into account in his follow-up book Nazi Science .
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1959