The World of Walther Nernst: The Rise and Fall of German Science 1864-1941

At the end of the 19th century, under the benevolent patronage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became home to new scientific and technological ideas. In German universities, innovators like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Walther Nernst revolutionized physics and chemistry with their theories of relativity, of the atomic structure and of the quanta.

Walther Nernst, a founder of physical chemistry, received the Nobel prize in 1920 ...