Why Göttingen? (re: rumours of Pynchon's new book)

[Paul Mackin]

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> From: lorentzen-nicklaus [mailto:lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de] 
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:04 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Cc: Richard Romeo
> Subject: Why Göttingen? (re: rumours of Pynchon's new book) 
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> "Till Hitler the world-center for nuclear research was in
> Göttingen; 1933 it moved to America. It's an interesting 
> speculation that without Hitler's anti-Semitism probably
> Germany, and not America, would have been the first country 
> to develop a nuclear bomb."
> 
> Sebastian Haffner: Anmerkungen zu Hitler [1978], p. 101 (own translation).


I once knew a solid state physicist who got his doctorate at Goettingen.
Did it become big in solid state physics research?  That would be
post-WWII. Did some of the American developers of the transistor train
there?

Remember Prof.-Dr. Laslo Jamf and his promotion of silicon as the wave
of the future. Not as a material for transistors but even so. Would not
have been surprised to learn Jamf went to Gottingen. Or even Lyle Brand.

Does it all tie together some way?