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Esther Simpson

The Woman Who Saved Science and Learning from the Nazis

Autor: JOHN EIDINOW
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Little, Brown Book Group
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and...

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Autor
JOHN EIDINOW
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2023
Pagini
416
EAN
9781472143228
ISBN
1472143221
Enbook ID
33390684
Editura
Little, Brown Book Group
Greutate
41
Dimensiuni
156 x 240 x 22

Descriere completă

Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?

This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman whose dedication to the cause of freedom in science and learning left an indelible mark on the cultural and intellectual landscape of the modern world.

Esther Simpson - Tess to her friends - devoted her life to resettling academic refugees, whom she thought of as her family. By the end of her life, Simpson could count among her ''children'' sixteen Nobel Prize winners, eighteen Knights, seventy-four fellows of the Royal Society, thirty-four fellows of the British Academy. Her ''children'' made a major contribution to Allied victory in World War Two.

From a humble upbringing in Leeds to Russian immigrant parents, Simpson took on secretarial roles that saw her move to Paris, Vienna and Geneva. But when Hitler assumed power in 1933, she took a job in London at the Academic Assistance Council, newly set up to rescue displaced German scholars, and found her lifelong calling.

For a woman who befriended so many and such eminent ''children'', surprisingly little is known of her. This book is a study of Esther Simpson: who she was and how she lived, what moved her to take up and never to relinquish her calling, her impact on the world, and the historical context that helped shape her achievements.

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