Prof. Dr. Mark Walker

Professor of History

History Department

Union College

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

John Bigelow Professor of History

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989) [Die Uranmaschine. Mythos und Wirklichkeit der deutschen Atombombe (Berlin, Siedler Verlag, 1990)]
Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atom Bomb (New York, Perseus Publishing, 1995)

Artikel

“National Socialism and German Physics,” Journal of Contemporary History, 24 (1989), 63-89.
“Legenden um die deutsche Atombombe,” Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 38 (1990), 45-74.
“Physics and Propaganda: Werner Heisenberg’s Foreign Lectures under National Socialism,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 22 (1992), 339-89.
“Myths of the German Atomic Bomb,” Nature, 359 (1992), 473-474.
“Selbstreflexionen deutscher Atomphysiker. Die Farm Hall-Protokolle und die Entstehung neuer Legenden um die ‘deutsche Atombombe,’” Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 41 (1993), 519-42.
“A Nobel Tale of Wartime Injustice,” Nature, 382 (1996), 393-95 [together with Elisabeth Crawford and Ruth Lewin Sime].
“A Nobel Tale of Postwar Injustice,” Physics Today, 50, No. 9 (September 1997), 26-32 [together with Elisabeth Crawford and Ruth Lewin Sime].
“Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression,” Physics in Perspective, 8/2 (2006), 116-163.
“New light on science, medicine, and engineering under Hitler,” Metascience, 19/3 (2010), 421-431.
“The ‘National’ in International, and Transnational Science,” in The British Journal for the History of Science, 45/3 (2012), 359-376.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Science, Technology, and National Socialism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993) [editor, together with Monika Renneberg]
Science and Ideology: A Comparative History (London: Routledge, 2003) [editor]
Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes [Volume 20 of Osiris] (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2005) [Edited, together with Carola Sachse]
Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung - Die DPG im Dritten Reich (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2007) [Edited, together with Dieter Hoffmann] [The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)]
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2009) [Edited together with Susanne Heim and Carola Sachse]
Physics and Politics: Research and Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010) [Edited together with Helmuth Trischler]
“Fremde” Wissenschaftler im Dritten Reich. Die Debye-Affäre im Kontext (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011) [Edited together with Dieter Hoffmann]
The German Research Foundation 1920-1970: Funding Poised between Science and Politics (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013) [Edited together with Karin Orth, Ulrich Herbert, and Rüdiger vom Bruch]

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Technik und Nationalsozialismus.