- Title Pages
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction<sup>1</sup>
- 1 ‘Protests Butter No Parsnips’: Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933–1938
- 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA
- 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933–1964
- 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL
- 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
- 7 Eva and Esther
- 8 ‘Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World’: Philipp Schwartz (1894–1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft
- 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933–1945
- 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women
- 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice
- 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Plutarch’s Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945–2010
- 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War
- 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- 16 ‘Bending the rules’: South African Refugees in the UK, 1960–1980
- 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration
- Postscript: Chilean Refugees
- Index
Refugee Scientists in a New Environment1
Refugee Scientists in a New Environment1
- Chapter:
- (p.77) 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment1
- Source:
- In Defence of Learning
- Author(s):
Gustav Born
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter presents the author's recollections about his family's migration and experiences as refugees from Nazi Germany to Britain in 1933. It recalls the academic scene into which German scientists came and indicates the contributions refugees made to science and medicine in this country.
Keywords: refugees, Nazi Germany, German scientists, scientific contributions, medicine, refugee scientists
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- Title Pages
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction<sup>1</sup>
- 1 ‘Protests Butter No Parsnips’: Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933–1938
- 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA
- 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933–1964
- 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL
- 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
- 7 Eva and Esther
- 8 ‘Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World’: Philipp Schwartz (1894–1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft
- 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933–1945
- 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women
- 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice
- 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Plutarch’s Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945–2010
- 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War
- 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- 16 ‘Bending the rules’: South African Refugees in the UK, 1960–1980
- 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration
- Postscript: Chilean Refugees
- Index
