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> "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community
by zweifuss 4y ago
> "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)."
That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi era.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858
- graymatters 4y agoThe article you reference, while an interesting memoir read, does not contradict the statement you disagree with and quote above. Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi. This is undisputed. His ideology preceded his joining of the Nazi party, which was not opportunistic at all, but deliberate. The article sheds little, if at all, light on the second part of the quoted statement.