By an Autumn 2020 student
Fritz Haber and Richard Goldschmidt were both middle-aged German-Jewish scientists at the beginning of World War I. One headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, and the other was traveling abroad to gather Gypsy Moths for a study on sex determination. This podcast follows them through the war, contrasting their interaction with society during this time.
Listen to The Scientist in WWI: The Shadow of the Ivory Tower here.
Bibliography:
Primary
Professors of Germany, To the Civilized World (The North American Review, 1919), 284-287.
Fritz Haber, Fünf Vorträge aus den Jahren 1920–1923 (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924), 25–41.
R. Goldschmidt, In and out of the ivory tower: the autobiography of Richard B. Goldschmidt (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960).
Secondary
Margit Szöllösi-Janze, The Scientist as Expert: Fritz Haber and German Chemical Warfare During the First World War and Beyond (One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences, 2017), 11-23.
Bretislav Friedrich, Jeremiah James, From Berlin-Dahlem to the Fronts of World War I: The Role of Fritz Haber and His Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in German Chemical Warfare (One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences, 2017), 25-44.
Robert Wald Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Harvard University Press, 2014).