Abstract
“Why are you interested in this man?” they usually ask me. I don't know the answer. It just happened. Maybe my interest in the life of Fritz Houtermans started when I began coming across repeated references in various books to a gifted German physicist who emigrated to the USSR after Hitler came to power, was arrested by the Soviets in 1937 as a German spy and then was extradited back to Germany in 1940, only to return to occupied Kharkov two years later with the conquering Nazis.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 29-37 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Volume | 45 |
| No | 7 |
| Specialist publication | Physics Today |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)