How could a brilliant scientist and mathematician, an innovator in quantum theory, who worked closely with Jewish colleagues, become an ardent Nazi? How did this man, who has a field of mathematics named after him, escape the scrutiny of his colleagues? And what happened to him upon the collapse of Nazi Germany? The scientist who straddled this strange world of physics and Nazism was Pascual Jordan. With us to explain the history of Pascual Jordan is Ryan Dahn. Ryan is a writer, editor, science historian, and translator. He is the books editor at Physics Today, the flagship physics magazine of the American Institute of Physics.
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Episode 38. Falsifiability: Sean Carroll
Episode 37. Environmental Health: Linda Birnbaum
Episode 36. Dark Money: David Michaels
Episode 35. The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
Episode 34. The Chemical Age: Pete Myers & Frank von Hippel
Episode 33. Industrial Denial: Barbara Freese
Episode 32. Materials Science: Ainissa Ramirez
Episode 31. Science & Poetry: Dava Sobel
Episode 30. Global Amphibian Declines: David Wake
Episode 29. Green Chemistry: Terry Collins
Episode 28. Environmentalism: Paul Ehrlich
Episode 27. Biodiversity: Thomas Lovejoy
Episode 26. Linguistics: Noam Chomsky
Episode 25. Space Science: Pam Melroy
Episode 24. Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems: Ian Harrison
Episode 23. Human Evolutionary Genetics: Jason Wilder
Episode 22. Sex Differences in the Brain: Margaret McCarthy
Episode 21. Plutonium: Frank N. von Hippel
Episode 20. Gravitational Waves: Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss
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