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...Klinge Gŏttingen...
...with what one official called a "most valuable" cache of documents and four other prisoners: Alfred Bahr, 58, a physicist in the solar-power division of Munich's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose arrest for spying...
From the middle 1850s when, as a schoolboy in Switzerland and an undergraduate at Göttingen University, he began picking up fragments of stained glass from ruined churches, buying works of art was his obsession. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare drawings, incunabula (literally, things from the cradle, or books printed before 1501), bookbindings, historical documents and letters-these poured into his vaults, sucked from Europe as by a vacuum cleaner by the limitless power of his funds. After 1906 the collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself...
Ponto spent his early childhood in Ecuador and Chile, where his German father ran an export-import business. After the war he studied at Göttingen, Hamburg, Zurich, Cambridge and the University of Washington, where he did half a year of graduate work in international law. He joined Dresdner Bank in 1950 "out of curiosity about figures," and by 1969 made it to chief executive...
Clever Pupils. As a Jew, Born was automatically a practitioner of what Hitler called "Jewish physics"; he was dismissed from Göttingen when the Nazis came to power in Germany. After taking refuge in Britain, he continued to teach for many more years at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. But when he returned to Germany after his retirement in 1953, he became increasingly concerned by the great ethical issues that grew out of scientific advances. Though he had not worked on the atomic bomb, he was deeply disturbed by his possible influence on those...