About the authors

Finn Aaserud is Director of the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen. He is the author of Redirecting science: Niels Bohr, philanthropy and the rise of nuclear physics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990). He is also editor of the Niels Bohr collected works published by Elsevier Science, of which Volume 11, the last, documenting Bohr's political activities as well as containing occasional writings not included in previous volumes, will be going to press in 2005.

Cathryn Carson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also directs the Office for History of Science and Technology. She is completing a book titled Heisenberg in the atomic age: Science and the public sphere.

David C. Cassidy is Professor of Natural Science at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. He is the author of Uncertainty: The life and science of Werner Heisenberg (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1992).

Matthias Dörries is Professor for History of Science at the University of Strasbourg (Université Louis Pasteur). His research focuses on nineteenth-century (geo)physical science and the relation between science and language. Among his publications is Experimenting in tongues (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).

Michael Eckert is engaged since 1980 with projects in the history of physics at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He is author of Die Atomphysiker (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1993) and editor (together with Karl Märker) of Arnold Sommerfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel. Band 1: 1892-1918; Band 2: 1919-1951 (Berlin, Diepholz, Munich: Deutsches Museum and GNT-Verlag, 2000 and 2004).

Klaus Hentschel studied physics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg, with a Ph.D. and Habilitation in history of science. He is the author of numerous research articles, five books, and the editor of several others, including Physics and National Socialism (Boston: Birkhäuser, 1996), a critical anthology of primary sources with a detailed historical introduction. He is currently at the University of Berne with a research grant for experienced scholars and is about to finish a book on the mentality of physicists shortly after 1945; see www.cx.unibe.ch/~khentsch.

Dieter Hoffmann is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin and teaches at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on the history of modern physics and science in their institutional and biographical contexts. Among his many publications is the German edition of the Farm Hall transcripts (Operation Epsilon (Berlin: Rowohlt, 1993)).

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and of History of Science at Harvard University. Among his more recent books are Science and anti-science (1993); Scientific imagination (1998); Advancement of science and its burdens (1998); and Einstein, history and other passions (2000), all from Harvard University Press, which will also issue in 2005 his new book, Victory and vexation in science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others.

Thomas Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer who publishes frequently on the history of intelligence organizations and is a regular contributor to The New York review of books and other periodicals. Among his six books are Heisenberg's War: The secret history of the German bomb (New York: Knopf, 1993) and, most recently, Intelligence wars: American secret history from Hitler to Al Qaeda (New York review of books, 2004).

Helmut Rechenberg is a physicist and historian of physics associated with the Max Planck Institut for Physics (Werner Heisenberg-Institut) in Munich. His publications include the history of quantum physics (The historical development of quantum theory, 6 vols., with J. Mehra, New York: Springer, 1982-2001), and nuclear and elementary particle physics (On the origin of nuclear forces, with L.M. Brown, Bristol, Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub., 1996). He is the editor of: Werner Heisenberg, Gesammelte Werke/Collected Works, 9 vols., with W. Blum and H.P. Duerr (Berlin, New York: Springer, 1984-1993), of which Vol. AII contains Heisenberg's report for the German Uranium Project.

Paul Lawrence Rose is the Mitrani Professor of European History and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A study in German culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; German translation, 2001). His other recent books include Wagner - Race and revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992; German translation, 1999); German question/Jewish question. Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).

Mark Walker is Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, NY. His publications include: German National Socialism and the quest for nuclear power, 1939-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), Science, technology, and National Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) with Monika Renneberg, and Nazi science (New York: Plenum Press, 1995). His most recent book is Science and ideology: A comparative history (New York: Routledge, 2003).