Download or read book Elemental Germans written by Christoph Laucht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.